I have a stupid q.

[Chris Lewis]

In article <1991Apr9.123336.12706 at cid.aes.doe.CA> afsipmh at cid.aes.doe.CA (Patrick Hertel) writes:
>In article <1991Apr8.215454.22894 at athena.mit.edu> jik at athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>>In article <406 at platypus.uofs.edu>, mhm2 at jaguar.ucs.uofs.edu (MALINOSKI MARC H) writes:
>>|> 	How come everytime I try to execute a Makefile, I
>>|> get "permission denied"?

>>  This would probably be better in comp.unix.questions rather than in
>>comp.sources.games.bugs, since it is a general question about Makefiles and
>>not a specific question about any particular game.

>>  In any case, you don't execute Makefiles.  They are not programs.  You use
>>the "make" program to build programs based on what's in the Makefile.  A
>>Makefile is a configuration file for the "make" program.  See the man page for
>>"make" for more information.

>  I think he was just being fast and loose with his language and then
>  you never answered the question ( and you are usually so good at this
>  stuff! :) )

Actually, I think jik did answer the question, but the question require very
special attention to *precise* wording.  The original question implies that he
was trying to type:

	Makefile

rather than

	make

Of course you'd get permission denied from the former.  Unless the makefile
was executable.  In that case, the errors would be "interesting"....
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