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From: Christian Hochhold <hochhold@eternal.dusk.net>
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Subject: Re: Scripts and Programs
To: marcin@v-m.com
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 17:38:10 -0300 (ADT)
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In-Reply-To: <33B81160.6F3E@v-m.com> from Marcin Pasek at "Jun 30, 97 03:04:48 pm"
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Chances are..


that the directory where you compiled the program are not in
your path; add the directory to your path and you won't need the
./

Any program you want to run at certain intervals & times - you
can use crontab to execute them.

Christian


> When runnig the program written in C I compile that code using CC and
> then to run it I have to type in ./a.out  ?  Why do I have to do it this
> way why I can't execute the program like on my normal Unix Account just
> by typing in the a.out ...????
> 
> One more question....I would like to run a specific program every 30
> minutes is there a easy way to do this in FreeBsd OS?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Marcin
>