if it is a binary program (do ls -l /usr/games/nameYourGame and look on the permissions for the "x" flag) then just run /usr/games/nameYourGame
if it is not a binary program chances are your trying to run a program when that is not an executable. if the program is in your $PATH then you can just run nameYourGame and the system will do it..if it is NOT in your $PATH then you must specify the full path. Some programs even go so far as to want you to be in the directory which you are running the program, in this case you would cd /usr/games ; ./nameYourGame ..the "./" tells the system to run the command in the current directory, as the current directory is not in your $PATH (it is considered a security risk if it is). hope this helps! nate On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, dkphoto wrote: dkphot >I've just finished installing (a few days ago) Linux/Unix and am stuck on dkphot >something really dumb. dkphot > dkphot >I have figured out how to change shells, explore the file structure, use dkphot >sh (a bit) and several other things, but I just can't seem to launch a dkphot >simple game. dkphot > dkphot >/user/games/nameYourGame dkphot > dkphot >... I can't figure out any way to launch this and can't find anything in dkphot >the man pages or in the THREE Linux books I have that tells me how to dkphot >simply launch a program. dkphot > dkphot >I know I'm going to have to change my name after this, but I give up. How dkphot >is it done? dkphot > dkphot > dkphot > dkphot > dkphot >As Yet Undetermined Pseudonym to be Inserted Here dkphot > dkphot > dkphot >-- dkphot >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null dkphot > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 9:32pm up 158 days, 9:39, 2 users, load average: 1.17, 1.15, 1.09
