Re: game files or the /game sub-dir

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From: Herbert Xu
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 00:00

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Anyone wrote:
> 
> What would cause just my game files to not work?   I'm talking about the linux
> games like snake   in the /games  directory...
> 
>   For some reason, I can view the file,  I know that it is there, but when I
> try to run it, it says bad command or file name not found..   I tryed
> changing the security setting so that everybody could    rwxrwxrwx.
> 
> it still did not work...  What could it be.  Is it possible that X has
> something to do with it?

You probably haven't got /usr/games (or /games if that's where your
games are) in your PATH.  Try typing "/usr/games/snake" or add
/usr/games to your PATH in your .profile or equivalent.
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