[Newbies] interpreter (vers. 6502) cannot read image file ?

[David T. Lewis]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 09:43:28AM +0000, Milan Zimmermann wrote:
> Hi I am running:
> 
> squeak ./my-image
> 
> and get:
> 	This interpreter (vers. 6502) cannot read image file (vers. 544830578). 
> 
> My image was likely opened on Windows , the above message is from Linux
> I think all my VMs are fairly recent , within about 2 years (I can provide 
> them later, right now I do have access to the Windows VM that saved the 
> image).
> 
> Was there a recent (I mean perhaps last 2-3 years) VM change that would create 
> incompatibility of images as to which VM versions can be used to open them? 
> Or perhaps, can this be a siggn the  image is corrupted?

Milan,

Yes, it is a sign that the image is corrupted. The "version" that the
interpreter is talking about is intended to refer to 64 bit images as
opposed to normal 32 bit images, but in this case you have almost
certainly got a bad image file. You have been moving images between
different operating systems, so the most likely cause is that a zip
utility or ftp file copy has mistakenly treated the binary image
file as if it were text, and thus "helped" you by trying to convert
line ending characters.

Dave