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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!knews.uk0.vbc.net!vbcnet-gb!azure.xara.net!xara.net!netcom.net.uk!ix.netcom.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news-paris.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!rain.fr!news.remcomp.fr!news 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 Lines: 52 Message-ID: <33324938.6572@cdkit.remcomp.fr> References: <5grof3$138@bignews.shef.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: cd-kit.remcomp.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) To: C Lamb <cs1cl@stoat.shef.ac.uk> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37454 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 :) -- --- Jean-Francois Dockes, CDKIT SA dockes@cdkit.remcomp.fr Tel: +33 1 41 12 04 47 Fax: +33 1 41 12 04 47 56 Boulevard de la Republique 92210 SAINT CLOUD. FRANCE