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From: dhawk@well.UUCP (David Hawkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Problem with a.out's
Message-ID: <5021@well.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 88 20:16:31 GMT
References: <1181@cooper.cooper.EDU>
Reply-To: dhawk@well.UUCP (David Hawkins)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In the referenced article, c.ng@cooper.cooper.EDU (Cho Ng ) wrote:
>
>So here is my problem: When I try to execute a.out, I get the message
>'a.out: Cannot execute'.  I used the -V flag to check compilation,
>Any help as soon as possible would be greatly appreciated.
>
Check to see if a 'a.out' is somewhere earlier in your path.
Or type   ./a.out    to execute the a.out in the present directory.
I wouldn't suggest this except that I got bit on this one Friday.
I'm not going to say how long it took me to figure out what was
happening.
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