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   Subject: Re: New Free Pascal Program not recognized   
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   Tom Clydesdale wrote:   
   > On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:28:42 -0700, BlackTopBum wrote:   
   >    
   >> Tom Clydesdale was all like, you know, and then said something like a ...   
   >>   
   >>> I just installed the Free Pascal Compiler via Synaptic which appears to   
   >>> run correctly and creates a supposedly executable file but which I   
   >>> cannot run.  I've checked permissions and it (the compiled program) will   
   >>> not run as either myself or via sudo.  Can anyone give me a clue as to a   
   >>> problem source or possible corrective path to go down?   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >> Post the permission and what you did to execute the program, please.   
   >    
   > -rwxr-xr-x 1 tom tom 94224 2007-01-18 21:56 test1   
   >    
   > From terminal, I entered test1   
   >    
      
   try changing to the directory that holds testl and enter   
   ../testl   
      
   The ./ is required to prevent the bad guys from putting a file with the   
   same name as a common command ( such as ls or cat) in the user directory   
   tree and having it run before the real command.   
      
   > The error indication was:   "bash: test1: command not found"   
   >>> One thing that bothers me is the size of the executable file (>92k) for   
   >>> the very simple "Hello World" testing program!!!  When compiling there   
   >>> is no error indication with both an object and executable file created.   
   >> It's text-based (terminal), yes?   
   >    
   > Yes   
   >    
   >> Post your code.   
   >    
   > program HeightInInches;   
   > var feet, inches : integer;   
   >    
   > begin   
   >  feet := 6;   
   >  inches := feet * 12;   
   >  writeln ('height in inches is ', inches)   
   > end.   
   >    
   > As you can see I especially picked a very simple program to ensure that   
   > the install was good.  I had precisely the same problem when running the   
   > "Hello.pp" program that accompanied the compiler at install time (this is   
   > the one I had to use sudo for compilation, again following the Free Pascal   
   > documentation).   
   >    
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