On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 22:12 -0400, Mark Peskir wrote: > I have made some very small c programs. They compiled with no errors under > gcc, and produced an a.out. However, when I type a.out to run, I get "a.out: > command not found". > > I am running the latest gcc (4.0.2) on an x86 machine using Mandrake Linux > 10.1 (not Mandriva). Thank you for helping this Linux beginner! > you have to indicate PATH your file resident. etc. you could run : ./a.out