At 17:53 +0100 1/21/04, manu chao wrote: >Hi, I just wanted to get started by following the tutorial at >http://www.mactipscafe.com/tip015/ >but I get the following error: >'Exec format error. Binary file not executable.'
The web page seems to show a space between the exclamation point and the /.. I have never put one there and I'm not sure it's an error to do so. Try, from Terminal perl -w ../helloWorld.pl The shell will ignore the shebang (#!) line and go directly to perl. The -w flag turns on perl's extra warnings. Also do a "ls -l" after you do the chmod to be sure the permissions got changed. It also wouldn't hurt to do "cat helloWorld.pl" just to be sure what you expect is there. If it has improper line ends or is in RTF format you'll see it. echo $PATH to be sure /usr/bin/ is in your search path which perl to be sure perl is actually installed. -- --> There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary, and those who don't <--
