From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 24 06:12:53 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA07589 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 06:12:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA07578 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 06:12:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id OAA66228; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 14:12:03 GMT Message-ID: <36AB2A32.3BB87A30@tdx.co.uk> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 14:12:02 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kwok CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hello References: <36AB27B4.11F10B9D@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG kwok wrote: > > Hello > > I would like to know the following > > 1) under the home directory, there is file 'xsm.core' > what is the meaning of this file? It's a core file, a dump of that processes (the process previously called: xsm) address space. It can be handy for debugging... You can delete it if your not going to use it for debugging... > 2) i couldn't type '%' sign, how to map my keybroad? Go into /stand and run ./sysinstall - from there go for 'configure', 'console', 'keymap' - and select the right keymap you need... :) > 3) i create file 'c program' by vi, using cc to compile it or chmod > +x > when i run it by a.out or original excution file. it prompts 'not > found' > why is it? use command 'ls', the file is exited! Because for safety reasons (to stop someone from putting Trojan programs on the system with names like 'ls') - by default the path to run programs from doesn't include the current directory... Doing: ./a.out Should run the program for you... -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message