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FrankG
02-09-2004, 12:23 PM
I'm fairly new to Linux and am trying to get through the day Windowless. I downloaded iSiloXC for Linux but I guess I need a few clues on what to do to get it running.

I have my Windows disks shared and mounted and I can navigate to my iSiloX data files that I used with Windows iSiloXC to download my daily news. I cannot run iSiloXC under Linux though.

I unpacked the ZIP file, navigated to its directory, chmoded the iSiloXC file to allow me to execute, but Linux insists it is not an executable program. I get: iSiloXC: command not found

Text from the terminal session:

03:20:24[~/iSiloXC]ls -l
total 1174
-rwxrwxrwx 1 name group 1185560 Nov 19 04:01 iSiloXC
-rw-rw-rw- 1 name group 6758 Nov 19 04:01 license.txt
-rw-rw-rw- 1 name group 2440 Nov 19 04:01 readme.txt
03:20:28[~/iSiloXC]iSiloXC
bash: iSiloXC: command not found
03:24:09[~/iSiloXC]

I'm sure I must be missing something simple. Any clues?

Thanks,
Frank
iSilo
02-09-2004, 04:49 PM
On UNIX, the current directory is not implicitly part of the search path, unlike on the DOS command line where it is implicitly the first directory searched when you try to execute a file without a path specification. So try ./iSiloXC. The ./ specifies that the file is in the current directory.
FrankG
02-09-2004, 05:51 PM
How about that. You're right. Thank you for the simple tip.

Frank
FrankG
02-12-2004, 01:19 PM
>The ./ specifies that the file is in the current directory.

One other note, it's good to see the trick I learned years ago with OS2 to add "./" to the PATH chain works in Linux.

Frank
terip
10-18-2005, 09:27 PM
I tried to run the command as mentioned here, but it's still not working. I get "./iSiloXC: cannot execute binary file". Am I correct in thinking this is because I am running Ubuntu on a Mac (power pc) and that it is not complied for that version of Linux?

I really miss iSilo and would love to have a converter working for ubuntu.
iSilo
10-18-2005, 11:32 PM
The Linux version of iSiloXC is for x86 platforms.

If you are using a Power PC Mac, your only option is iSiloX for Mac OS.
terip
10-21-2005, 08:42 AM
The only way I'd be able to run it would be to try and set up Mac on Linux, as old world macs need os 9 installed to run bootx. My current mac doesn't have osx installed, although I've run it in the past and could possibly set up a different mac to run it again. Thanks for the info though.