I am running Windows Vista Home Premium. I was beginning to learn C programming on my win xp computer. I made the program in a compiler, saved it, compiled it, went to command prompt, cded to the folder the file was stored and then typed then name of the file and hit enter.

Now, for instance, I wrote a file and saved it and compiled it. I opened cmd, cded to the folder, and typed the name of the file and hit enter. The .obj file IS present in the folder my programs are stored in. I get an error that the name of the program is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Example- The name of the program I made was printf. Saved printf.c in the C folder on my destop. I checked, the compiler created the .obj file in the folder.

I open command prompt, cd to the folder, type in 'printf'.
And command prompt slaps this in my face:

'printf' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

What compiler are you using? Visual Studio? Are you sure there's an acutal program in there called "printf"? Usually, if I make a basic project for a C or C++ program, it makes the program in a folder called "Debug" in the project folder.

I am using Miracle C. I save my files in a custom folder.

So: look for an executable file and go to that directory. The .obj files are not executable. They are intermediate "object" files that are sometimes created by a compiler when building an executable. The executable will be named "something.exe", not "something.obj"

Regards,

Dave

There is no .exe file in the folder
only the src code and .obj file

And the only time I recommend changing compilers is when someone is using Miracle C. I have never heard anything good about it. Try one of these, all free:
Borland 5.5
Open Watcom C++/Fortran
Bloodshed DevC
MSVC++ Express

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