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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!blackbush.xlink.net!ka.sub.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!not-for-mail From: Philipp Mergenthaler <un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help with a.out Date: 17 Apr 1997 07:58:35 GMT Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Lines: 23 Sender: Philipp Mergenthaler <un1i@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Message-ID: <5j4l7b$8cb$1@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <3355973C.429F@charlotte.infi.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970409; 9000/819 HP-UX B.10.10] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39199 drdan <mdan@charlotte.infi.net> wrote: > I am trying to write small programs in C++. I have been compiling with > g++ and it gives me a file a.out I assume this is a executable. > Although, when I type a.out I get an error message that says that > command a.out is not found. I must be forgetting to do somthing simple, > please help me. The shell looks for executable files only in the directories which are listed in the $PATH variable. Probably your file isn't in one of these. You can - move it to one of these, e.g. $HOME/bin ,then do "rehash" - include this directory into the $PATH (look at .profile, .cshrc etc.) - easiest way: give the exact path, e.g. $HOME/c-progs/a.out or, if you're already in that directory: ./a.out Bye, Philipp -- P. Mergenthaler, un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de | Wer halb gebildet, ist der Tel.: 0721/694532 | schoenste Narr. Klosterweg 28 / I609, 76131 Karlsruhe | (Weiss jemand, von wem das ist?) http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~un1i/ |