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Re: Games

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Hamstra)
Sat Nov 23 09:51:11 1996

From: Mark Hamstra <mhamstra@sullivan.bentley.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 09:51:12 -0500 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9611230800.A4662-0100000@urchin.bga.com>
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Zero ToL <zerotol@bga.com> wrote:
> I recently installed RH linux/intel 4.0 with the games package. I went to 
> my /usr/games/ directory and try to run one of the games. It says bash 
> command not found. So then I ls -l the directory and almost all of the 
> games have the -rwxr-xr--x attribute.  Does anyone know why I can't run 
> these games?

Same reason you can't seem to run any executable in the current directory:
for security reasons, '.' is not in your PATH.  Try ./<filename of game>

Mark Hamstra
Bentley Systems, Inc.


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