On Thursday, Apr 14th 2005 at 19:59 -0600, quoth JOHN H DURRANT: =>Hello, => => I am running Fedora Core 3 and downloaded a .bin file from a site that I =>trust. The instructions that came with the file say to double click on the =>file. When I do this, Fedora tells me that it doesn't know what to do with =>a .bin file but that the contents look like a shell script. I then let's be =>browse for the right command to use to open a shell script file. What's the =>right answer? => =>Thanks, => =>John Durrant Typically, a bin file is a Microsoft executable and won't do you any good under Linux. To check, run the file command on the .bin file. -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net