EMACS not loading - error msg provided

[Lahorem]

Hi
a newbie user to unix and have tried to load emacs using emm 'emacs' command
I get this error and have no idea what it means
Any ideas?


Error msg:

Error: 0EXEC cannot find executable for 'emacs' version '20.3.0.0'

thanks in advance

 

[bfitzmai]

Can you post the results of command: which emacs

 

[Lahorem]

This is what I get

/opt/bin/emacs


Any ideas guys / girls?

 

[bfitzmai]

Do you get the same message when you run command:

/opt/bin/emacs <filename>

 

[Lahorem]

yes indeed. still the same error

 

[chipperMDW]

What does this command tell you?:

[tt]file /opt/bin/emacs[/tt]

 

[SamBones]

And this...

[tt]ldd /opt/bin/emacs[/tt]

Does it show any libraries missing?

 

[SamBones]

Also show us output from...

[tt]ls -l /opt/bin/*emacs*[/tt]

And what flavor of Unix are you running?

 

[Lahorem]

Hi guys . apologies for the delay in response:

command: textfile /opt/bin/emacs
Result: textfile: Command not found

command: ldd /opt/bin/emacs
Result: ldd: /opt/bin/emacs: unsupported or unknown file type

command: ls -l /opt/bin/*emacs*

Result:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 5 Jun 19 2003 /opt/bin/emacs -> 0EXEC*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 5 Jun 19 2003 /opt/bin/xemacs -> 0EXEC*

Version of Unix: SunOS 5.8

 

[bfitzmai]

The files emacs and xemacs are actually soft linkes to the executable OEXEC... I'm assuming from the error message the file /opt/bin/0EXEC is not there... Where did you get this package from? Are you supposed to compile this package prior to use?

 

[Trevoke]

command: textfile /opt/bin/emacs
Result: textfile: Command not found

It should be...
$ file /opt/bin/emacs


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