ADDENDUM (SORT OF)

  My ten things to know about Linux wasn't too bad. But Owain 'Og' Vaughan of www.tunelinux.com has written a short peice altering one of the points in the list. I'm not bitter, he's been doing it for longer (!).
   
  5.Unlike MSDOS, to run something from the current directory use ./filename

This is true of you don't have the current directory '.' in your PATH variable. Usually it should be at the end, so that all the system bin directories are searched first. Try 'echo $PATH', if you don't see the current directory identifier '.' anywhere in the list - add it!!

Using bash, ksh, sh etc:

PATH=${PATH}:.
export PATH

Using csh, tcsh etc:

setenv PATH ${PATH}:.

Then do an 'echo $PATH' again and you should see a solitary '.' at the end of your PATH. You can now run programs in your current directory without prefixing them with './'

Og

Well, that was me told then wasn't it!