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From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Compiling and executing a simple program
To: geminidomino@earthlink.net (Ciro Maeitta)
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 12:30:22 -0400 (EDT)
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> Subject: Compiling and executing a simple program
> 
> 
> > Ok, I got my FreeBSD system up and running.  While I'm waiting for KDE to
> > finish installing from the ports collection, I decided to telnet into my
> > FreeBSD machine from my Windows '98 machine.
> >
> > I wrote a "hello world" program in C++ and tried to compile it and execute
> > it.
> > Just to make sure I was doing everything right, I telneted in to my
> school's
> > (well, ex-school's) server and did it there.  I had no problems on the
> > school's server.
> >
> [snip]
> > $ g++ -o hw hw.cpp
> > $ hw
> > hw: not found
> > $ ls
> > HW      hw      hw.cpp  hw1
> > $ hw
> > hw: not found
> > $
> 
> Are you sure the directory you are in is in your path? Your prompt doesnt
> tell me where you are working from, but on a hunch, I would say try './hw'
> instead of just 'hw'.

Iven if the directory is the path, probably the 'hw' file is not
yet in the hash table because that file was just created..
So doing './hw' is definitely needed.
////jerry

> 
> HTH
> -C
> 

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