[NBLUG/talk] OT: Primes revisited

[Steve Zimmerman]

 Steve Zimmerman wrote:

> } I'm lost, but not terribly concerned about it.  I have that rpm installed
> } under which I see the "primes" program at frankb.us/stuff, but
> } when I go `whereis primes' I get the classic blank stare: `primes:'.

E. Frank Ball replied:

> Did you set the file permissions to execute?  chmod a+x primes
> Is primes somewhere which is in your PATH?

Thank you for your help, Frank.  What is the use of setting file
permissions if I don't have primes, which it doesn't look like I do?
Similarly, how could primes be in my $PATH if I don't have it?
If it's anywhere on my system, `whereis primes' would find it,
would it not?

Thanks again.  :-)


	-- Steve Zimmerman