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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 11:11:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, bruce perryman wrote:

>      I compile a simple c program with cc and get the resulting a.out or
>      a.o.  But I can't run it! What's the problem?

you need to give the full path if it's not already in your $PATH variable.

ie:  ./a.out

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major