At the command line, type 2qz.sh and find out what happens. You should be aware that Intel and Sun chips have different endianness. If your system is having a problem reading unformatted fortran files ngc_obscomp.dat sgc_obscomp.dat it's probably an endianness problem. Read HELP.unformatted in the mangle directory. Alternatively, you can use the formatted versions of these files ngc_obscomp.txt sgc_obscomp.txt These will be used automatically if there is an error reading the unformatted files.