From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 1 01:12:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA12681 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Jun 1997 01:12:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA12676 for ; Sun, 1 Jun 1997 01:12:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA02778; Sun, 1 Jun 1997 10:12:38 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id KAA28574; Sun, 1 Jun 1997 10:16:41 +0200 (MEST) From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <199706010816.KAA28574@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: a.out programs are not executable! cant run any programs.. In-Reply-To: from Shawn Ramsey at "May 31, 97 08:07:50 pm" To: shawn@luke.cpl.net (Shawn Ramsey) Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 10:16:40 +0200 (MEST) Cc: andrejs@crl.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I installed it and even recomplied the kernel with no problems. > > However if I try to compile a simple hello.c program with gcc, the > > result is a.out. If I type a.out it says command not found. If I say > > file a.out it says it is a: > k > I don't know if this is the problem, but if you just typed "a.out" and the > directory you werent in is not in your path... it won't work. If thats the > case try "./a.out" (without the quoutes of course) You can also run this command *with* the quotes ;-) > > > > -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de