Executing Files

yes, the ./ was the problem

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Fleming EA" <pfleming@infomagic.net>
To: "PLUG Phoenix Linux Users Group" <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: Executing Files



Sorry- that should have been
$./filename.bin
unless the directory that you are in is in your $PATH. I set my path to
include my home directory.

On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Tom Achtenberg wrote:

> This is really basic, but I cannot remember how to execute a .bin file. I
> had to rebuild my system and am installing Star Office and JRE but they
are
> in .bin files. I have run chmod +x on them but now what?
>
>
> Tom Achtenberg
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