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From: Jean-Francois Dockes <dockes@cdkit.remcomp.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.2-RELEASE problem (simple)
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 09:39:20 +0100
Organization: CDKIT France
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To: C Lamb <cs1cl@stoat.shef.ac.uk>
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C Lamb wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have been using IRIX and SUNOS/Solaris for a very long time
> purely as a ordinary user, little/no experience as sysadmin etc...
> After building my new PC (AMD DX4-133 16M 814M HD) I thought
> FreeBSD would be ideal as an OS. I installed just the bin set
> and was =very= impressed with the result. Just a few problems that
> I hope you can help with.
>
> $ cat test.c
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main(argc,argv)
> int argc;
> char **argv;
> {
> printf("hello, world\n");
> return(0);
> }
> $ gcc -o test test.c
> $ test
> $
>
> yep, it prints nothing...
> Can anyone help? It seems as if stdout isn't being used.
>
> b) how to change keyboard settings, the mappings seem a bit pear shaped
> for non-alphanumerics (dollar/pound/hash/pipe etc)
>
> I would like to re-iterate that 2.2-RELEASE is very easy and straight-
> forward for the novice to install (I am that novice!) so a big pat on
> the back for all concerned with the development.
>
> yours
> Chris Lamb
Well... who's never been bitten by this ? Remember these nice
"if test -f somefile;then dosomething" in shell-scripts ... ?
test is either a shell-builtin or a program very likely to be early in
your search path. You're not executing your program. Try "./test"
I've been there :)
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