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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!gatech2!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!sgigate.sgi.com!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hp-cv!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!news.willamette.edu!news.orst.edu!news.uidaho.edu!usenet From: Faried Nawaz <fn@uidaho.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: compiled program won't run. Date: 14 Nov 1995 20:10:46 -0800 Organization: People's Front Against WWW Lines: 14 Sender: nawaz921@waldrog.cs.uidaho.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <imwx92msah.fsf@waldrog.cs.uidaho.edu> References: <480g7u$t2e@news.csus.edu> <816083974snz@beckley.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: fn@uidaho.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: waldrog.cs.uidaho.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-reply-to: Ian W Taylor's message of Sat, 11 Nov 95 09:59:34 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0.9 In article <816083974snz@beckley.demon.co.uk> Ian W Taylor <iwta@beckley.demon.co.uk> writes: $ 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=.:$PATH no, do PATH=$PATH:. you really don't want the `.' first in your path; see J's example.