Mosaic2.7b1 exe is strange/unusable filetype

[albert at ccs.neu.edu (Albert Cahalan)]

> I just downloaded (in 45 minutes, no less...) the precompiled binary for
> Mosaic, "ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mosaic/Unix/binaries/Mosaic-linux-2.7b1.Z";.
> After uncompressing the file, I am unable to run it.  Using the "file"
> command on it returns the following:
> 
> Mosaic-linux-2.7b1: ELF 32-bit LSB executable i386 (386 and up) Version 1
> 
> When I try to run it, I get "zsh: command not found: Mosaic-linux-2.7b1" .
> Does anyone know what's going on here?  More importantly, how can I get this
> to work?  (as an aside, I also downloaded the source code, but I seem to
> be missing some X libraries...)  I'm running Linux 1.2.1 (3/95 InfoMagic CD)

Dumb questions:
Is the file executable? (double check!)
Do you have ELF support in your kernel?  In your libraries?
Is it in your $PATH?

You are missing some X libraries - Motif, and it costs money.