Help needed on basic gcc compiling and a.out

[Fergus Henderson]

On 15-Jan-2001, Robin Kim <shkim73@home.com> wrote:
> I'm a beginner at linux C programming.
> 
> I'm using Red-hat  6.2 and this is my problem.
> 
> I programmed a simple file called 'a.c'
> then I compiled it using gcc as following,
> 
> "gcc a.c"
> 
> Then I tried to run a.out but I have
> "command not found" error.
> 
> What do I have to do?

Type "./a.out" rather than "a.out".

Questions like this are probably more appropriate in the gnu.gcc.help
newsgroup.

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