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On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, yama-ko wrote:

> I can compile programs with C , but I cannot execute them . Why ?

<snip>

> %a.out
> a.out : cannot found command
> %

the problem is FreeBSD cant find the command as it isnt in your path. You
can specify the full pathname to the file but what is probably easier is a
relative pathname ie try executing

./a.out

Andrew