Thanks all the ./ did the trick. And I now know the history which is good.

Clay Stapleton

On Sunday 02 June 2002 09:32, steve wrote:
> you need to preface your command with ./  (i.e.  ./hello)  the reason
> for this is that your current directory is not in your path for security
> reasons.
>
> Steve Phariss
>
> > I have tried this with a c program with the same results,
> > "command not found".
> >
> > Any ideas out there on what is causing this?
> >
> > Clay Stapleton
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