Thanx for the answers to my post.  after seeing your responces I realize
that my questions left alot to be desired.  let me try again

what I am looking to do is take a source code downloaded off the internet
and make it executable by using chmod or the like. sorry about being
so ignorent about linux,  but you have to start some-ware :).
I want to install falcon's eye nethack game but the instructions say

 You should already have a GCC compiler installed with your Linux 
distribution. However, you need to install version 1.2 of the SDL libraries 
these instructions are from http://falconseye.sourceforge.net/compile.html
if you need to see them all.

as i dont know how to Install anything from source the instructions
don't do me any good.

at this point in my linux *training* this is too much for me. I need to
take baby steps and learn from EZ an simple applications that will use
only the basic libraries. I hope this is a little more clear. as I learn
more Linux my questions hopefully will be more concise.

                               TheTaz...


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