Re: game files or the /game sub-dir

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From: Frank Ranner
Date: Sun, 12 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?

  It is probably not on your PATH. Try running it as /games/snake or cd into
/games and then type ./snake

To see your current path type-
echo $PATH

Regards, Frank Ranner

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From: Frank Ranner <Frank_Ranner@dmd.a-l.defence.gov.au>
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Date: 1997/10/12
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