Solaris

Assuming it's a shell script, it's just text, and will be interpreted, not compiled.

"iexplorer" is indeed a shell script.

I tried to edit the file using vi and it came up with a bunch of weird stuff, beeps, etc. The text editor did the same thing too. Does this happen to be that making the shell an executable with chmod +x (file) changes all that?

Either are you editing the wrong file or using a different iexplorer release.

No, sorry, then it's not a script. Run "file" on it to find out what kind of file exactly, but that makes it pretty hard to edit. jlliagre's comment sounded like there's a shell script which eventually invokes this binary blob after setting up a correct environment for it -- Firefox works like that, too, there's a binary called firefox-bin but you never invoke that directly, you just run firefox which is a shell script (and a fairly complex one, but you can still understand and edit it with a bit of effort).

I think I got it.

Are you trying to execute/edit the "ie5setup.sunos5" file ?

I found out last night that I was able to edit it with vi, but the file reported only around 34kb when I was done Of course this is only a Windows version running on top of solaris; however.

And yeah I am trying to edit 'ie5setup.sunos5'