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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.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!fjholden.OntheNet.com.au!not-for-mail From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.2-RELEASE problem (simple) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:39:58 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 40 Message-ID: <3339CFEE.225D@OntheNet.com.au> References: <5grof3$138@bignews.shef.ac.uk> <slrn5j2uui.mbe.sec@matrix.42.org> <5h45rv$ii7@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37828 J Wunsch wrote: > > sec@matrix.42.org (Stefan `Sec` Zehl) wrote: > > > > $ gcc -o test test.c > > > $ test > > > $ > > > > > > yep, it prints nothing... > > > Can anyone help? It seems as if stdout isn't being used. > > Yepp it's standard error #1 :) > > Nope, standard error #1 is ``test: not found''. (Of course, only > for any other name than test...) > In a previous 'lifetime', I worked at the DEC Customer Support Centre, Sydney (Australia). One day a customer called up [they had a nasty habit of doing that ;-)) ] with the following VMS problem... They could do a directory and see a file but when they typed it the system said it didn't exist! Eg. $ dir foobar.txt <...some output...> $ type foobar.txt -TYPE-F-FNF, file not found $ This had me going for a while until I asked them to "dump" the file rather than type it. Turned out that some prankster had put the error message in the file so it looked like there was an error when everything was working fine!!! > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) Tony