On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 10:39:01PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > That looks like what I'm looking for. When I did make file (not > file.c) I was informed that the file is already up to date. I checked This is the primary magic of make. If you already *have* file, and it's newer than all the source files (in this case, just file.c), it won't build it again. Edit file.c so it has a new date (or just do "touch file.c") and try again. Or, delete "file". > man make and I didn't see any information on how to compile, although > it does say that it is dealing with C files. I tried googling for > info.make but I can't get my hands on it. Try "pinfo make". You'll probably want more than the man page and info -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>