Hi Everyone,
Thanks very much for the help. I eventually persuaded myself last night to install Ubuntu (5.10) as a separate partion on my HDD. The GRUB program that comes with it allows me to choose which O/S I want to boot from and I've managed to get BlitzMax up and running.
Two more question though, in Windows when you are at a console and you're in a directory that contains an executable you just type the name of the EXE and it will run. However in Linux, if I "cd" to my BlitzMax folder and type "MaxIDE", it says something like
Cheers
Seb
Thanks very much for the help. I eventually persuaded myself last night to install Ubuntu (5.10) as a separate partion on my HDD. The GRUB program that comes with it allows me to choose which O/S I want to boot from and I've managed to get BlitzMax up and running.
Two more question though, in Windows when you are at a console and you're in a directory that contains an executable you just type the name of the EXE and it will run. However in Linux, if I "cd" to my BlitzMax folder and type "MaxIDE", it says something like
Bash: MaxIDE: Command not found. I read somewhere you need to type instead:
.\MaxIDE and this appears to work. What does the ".\" do and how can I find a way of executing the MaxIDE exe from the console in any folder. (I know Windows has the %PATH% encironment variable for this.)Cheers
Seb