Executing a compiled file in 4.10

[drchatty]

I took a graphics class once (all theory, very little programming) and I'd like to get back into that. I may have OpenGL set up correctly, but I'm not sure. I have an old program from the class (done on Solaris) and it compiles. I try to run it, and I just get 'commend not found'. I'm in the same folder as the file, and it is an executable. Can anyone tell me why this isn't working?

Matt

[toojays]

It would've helped if you posted how you compiled it and how you tried to run it, but I can guess.

If your program is called "foo", and you are in the directory where it lives, you execute it by typing "./foo".

If you just type "foo", the bash shell will only execute foo if it can find it in the PATH. This is kind of a security feature to stop sysadmins being tricked into running programs they didn't mean to run. The "./" tells bash, "yes I really do want to run the program in the current directory."

Is this what happened?

[drchatty]

That did it, thanks.