[Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called "entities" and "fixup"

[bill at horne.net (Bill Horne)]

On Fri, 1 Aug 2014 01:16:33 -0400 
"Greg Rundlett (freephile)" <greg at freephile.com> wrote:

> As Tom suggested, what do you get with
> strings entities
> and
> file entitites

This is the output of the "strings"command on the "old" machine

moder8 at old-massis:~/rsi$ strings /home/moder8/bin/entities <I125
/lib/ld-linux.so.2
__gmon_start__
libc.so.6
_IO_stdin_used
exit
putchar
stdin
fgets
stdout
fputs
strncasecmp
fwrite
__libc_start_main
GLIBC_2.0
PTRh
[^_]
@(#) $Id: entities.c,v 1.4 2011/12/19 12:40:17 moder8 Exp $
&nbsp;
&iexcl;
&cent;
&pount;
&curren;
&yen;
&brvbar;
&sect;
&uml;
&copy;
&ordf;
&laquo;
&not;
&shy;
&reg;
&macr;
&deg;
&plusmn;
&sup2;
&sup3;
&acute;
&micro;
&para;
&middot;
&cedil;
&sup1;
&ordm;
&raqu;
&frac14;
&frac12;
&frac34;
&iquest;
&Agrave;
&Aacute;
&Acirc;
&Atilde;
&Auml;
&Aring;
&AElig;
&Ccedil;
&Egrave;
&Eacute;
&Ecirc;
&Euml;
&Igrave;
&Iacute;
&Icirc;
&Iuml;
&ETH;
&Ntilde;
&Ograve;
&Oacute;
&Ocirc;
&Otilde;
&Ouml;
&times;
&Oslash;
&Ugrave;
&Uacute;
&Ucirc;
&Uuml;
&Yacute;
&THORN;
&szlig;
&agrave;
&aacute;
&acirc;
&atilde;
&auml;
&aring;
&aelig;
&ccedil;
&egrave;
&eacute;
&ecirc;
&euml;
&igrave;
&iacute;
&icrc;
&iuml;
&eth;
&ntilde;
&ograve;
&oacute;
&ocirc;
&otilde;
&ouml;
&divide;
&oslash;
&ugrave;
&uacute;
&ucirc;
&uuml;
&yacute;
&thorn;
&yuml;
html
&quot;
&#39;
&lt;
&gt;
&amp;
moder8 at old-massis:~/rsi$

Now, the output of the "files" command on the old machine

/home/moder8/bin/entities: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386,\
version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs),\
 for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, not stripped

Now, the output of the "strings" commond on the "new" machine

/lib/ld-linux.so.2
__gmon_start__
libc.so.6
_IO_stdin_used
exit
putchar
stdin
fgets
stdout
fputs
strncasecmp
fwrite
__libc_start_main
GLIBC_2.0
PTRh
[^_]
@(#) $Id: entities.c,v 1.4 2011/12/19 12:40:17 moder8 Exp $ 
&nbsp;
&iexcl;
&cent;
&pount;
&curren;
&yen;
&brvbar;
&sect;
&uml;
&copy;
&ordf;
&laquo;
&not;
&shy;
&reg;
&macr;
&deg;
&plusmn;
&sup2;
&sup3;
&acute;
&micro;
&para;
&middot;
&cedil;
&sup1;
&ordm;
&raqu;
&frac14;
&frac12;
&frac34;
&iquest;
&Agrave;
&Aacute;
&Acirc;
&Atilde;
&Auml;
&Aring;
&AElig;
&Ccedil;
&Egrave;
&Eacute;
&Ecirc;
&Euml;
&Igrave;
&Iacute;
&Icirc;
&Iuml;
&ETH;
&Ntilde;
&Ograve;
&Oacute;
&Ocirc;
&Otilde;
&Ouml;
&times;
&Oslash;
&Ugrave;
&Uacute;
&Ucirc;
&Uuml;
&Yacute;
&THORN;
&szlig;
&agrave;
&aacute;
&acirc;
&atilde;
&auml;
&aring;
&aelig;
&ccedil;
&egrave;
&eacute;
&ecirc;
&euml;
&igrave;
&iacute;
&icrc;
&iuml;
&eth;
&ntilde;
&ograve;
&oacute;
&ocirc;
&otilde;
&ouml;
&divide;
&oslash;
&ugrave;
&uacute;
&ucirc;
&uuml;
&yacute;
&thorn;
&yuml;
html
&quot;
&#39;
&lt;
&gt;
&amp;

And, last, the output of the "file" command on the new machine:

/home/moder8/bin/entities: ELF 32-bit LSB  executable, Intel 80386,\
version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs),\
 for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, not stripped

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HTH. Thanks for your time!

Bill