newbie gcc question

[Matthew Majka]

Johan Nilson wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 17:05:41 -0600, Matthew Majka <mmajka@cs5.dasd.honeywell.com> wrote:
> 
> >Maggie Owens wrote:
> >>
> >> I have a little experience writing C++ in the dos and windows
> >> environment. Now I am trying to write a c program and compile it in gcc
> >> on a unix system. As a test, I wrote the traditional hello, world
> >> program:
> >>   #include <stdio.h>
> >>   void main()
> >>   {
> >>     printf("Hello, world!");
> >>   }
> >>
> >> I compiled it using:
> >>   gcc helloworld.c
> >
> >gcc helloworld.c -o helloworld
> >./helloworld
> >
> >That should do it.  However, ./a,out should have done it also.
> 
> or simply renaming a.out to a.exe, and then running it

He's on UNIX, not Windoze.