Ivan, Thanks for your interest. This is just amazing. I've had two reply's within the hour. I'll give your suggestion a try asap. Got any ideas on the asterisks appended to hello. This seems odd to me but again I'm just beginning. Ron Ivan Novick-3 wrote: > > --- rmodesi <rmodesi@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> I am a newbie to both Linux and C programming in Linux. >> My gcc compiler produces the file hello* after executing the command: >> gcc -Wall hello.c -o hello >> Bash will not execute this program. > > Did you try running the program like this: > > ./hello > > your path may not include the local directory by default. > > Ivan > > > --------------------- > Ivan Novick > http://www.0x4849.net > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/debian-gcc-produces-hello*-tf3919460.html#a11113885 Sent from the gcc - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.