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From: Ian W Taylor <iwta@beckley.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: compiled program won't run.
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 95 09:59:34 GMT
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In article <480g7u$t2e@news.csus.edu> wleong@sfsu.edu "WEE-KING LEONG" writes:
> I got the freeBSD up but I have a problem in getting something
> to work. I have written a simple program and it compile nicely with
> gcc. But when I tried to run it, I got error saying "command not
> found" Any idea what went wrong?
If you have compiled your program and produced an executable in
your current directory you will probably find that your current
directory is not in the PATH environmental variable.
So set
PATH=.:$PATH
before trying to execute your program.
--
Regards,
Ian T.