Thanks for all the suggestions. I have another dumb question - can I just take an earlier version of sed - say on RedHat 5.2 or 4.1 and just copy the sed executable onto a floppy and then transfer and use that version on RedHat 7.0? - or does sed use some of the libraries that had been on 5.2/4.1 - and thus won't work on RH 7.0? -Or even another possibility, can I use the SCO sed binary and run it on RedHat 7.0 with ibcs? I've tried to get ibcs running without any success at all: a) rpm -qa | grep ibcs shows: kernel-ibcs-2.2.16-22 [root@rh70 /tmp]# lsmod Module Size Used by epca 38316 16 lockd 31176 1 (autoclean) sunrpc 52964 1 (autoclean) [lockd] tlan 20200 1 (autoclean) st 25164 0 (unused) ncr53c8xx 52356 0 cpqarray 15368 5 [root@rh70 /tmp]# b) I have copied all of the SCO binaries from /shlib to the RefHat 7.0 /shlib c) When I try to run the classic "Hello World" program that I compiled on SCO on RedHat 7.0 - it gives the following message - as does EVERY SCO program I run:: [root@rh70 /tmp]# ./a.out bash: ./a.out: cannot execute binary file Has anyone ever gotten ibcs to run any SCO programs on RedHat? TIA...