On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 09:29:06PM -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:01 AM, tech <tech at laamail.com> wrote: > > I am having a problem that I assume is a set-up problem but I don't know > > which area to look at to fix it. Hopefully someone here can point me in the > > right direction. > > > > I can't get the simple Perl "Hello World" script to work. > > I can't get the "Hello World" program in the C++ book I began reading > to work. Seems to compile without errors, but nothing on my CRT. Will > try it again and start a thread here... :-) Let me guess... you named it "test", right? Then when you run "test" "nothing" happens? two things: 1. there's already a program named test, which displays no output, it merely has an exit status. 2. for a program in your current directory, run it with a preceding "./", e.g., "./test"--because "." is not in the path (and shouldn't be). -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. ------------------------------ Philippians 4:13 ------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080929/c448cd49/attachment-0005.sig>