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From: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: acroread with 2.1.6
Date: 20 Jan 1997 22:41:12 GMT
Organization: FreeBSD makes fun
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In article <5c0a89$6s8@eve.umiacs.umd.edu>,
	dbader@umiacs.umd.edu (David A. Bader) writes:
> Hi,
>   I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.6-RELEASE and attempted to run "acroread"
> using the linux compatiblity tarball:
> linux_lib-2.3
> 
> and acroread:
> DISTNAME=       acroread_linux_b1106
> PKGNAME=        acroread-3.0
> 
> Everything make's and installs properly. However, when I run acroread,
> I get the following error:
> 
> % acroread
> /usr/local/Acrobat3/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
> 
> What's wrong?

What does 

	$ head `which acroread`

say ?

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