explorer 8.0 hangs on V240 Solaris 9

I was hoping to run an explorer for OSSA but it hangs (started it Tue Sep  3 just after 11:59 - still hanging after almost 3 days).
/opt/SUNWexplo/bin/explorer -V
Explorer version: 8.0
Build number: 130610

exp_check revision: 1.7
exp_clean revision: 1.5
exp_common revision: 1.15
exp_defaults revision: 1.14
exp_display revision: 1.5
exp_file revision: 1.4
exp_filter revision: 1.10
exp_ftp revision: 1.8
exp_gate revision: 1.4
exp_https revision: 1.7
exp_instinfo revision: 1.4
exp_mail revision: 1.3
exp_main revision: 1.52
exp_migrate revision: 1.16
exp_rda revision: 1.11
exp_sunone revision: 1.7
exp_tools revision: 1.15
exp_transport revision: 1.9
exp_upgrade revision: 1.11

/opt/SUNWexplo/bin/explorer
Because the -SR command line option was not used, it is necessary to ask