Preserved Topic: new to c

I guess I have to learn a little bit of everything....
I'm starting to learn some c, in linux, I use gcc to compile a short proggy, and I get an a.out file. how would I run this file? typing a.out in konsole doesn't do anything
In windows, after compling I get a .dsp .dsw .opt files. what program do I run these files with? and which file usually gets ran?
its just simple printing text programs, I'm just too slow to get it on my own

Try typing:

./a.out

This works with bash in unix so it should work on linux.

Also, try changing the attribute on the file to executable:

chmod u+x a.out

If that doesn't help, give me an exact error description.

And I don't do windows coding troubleshooting. I'd rather shoot myself in the nuts. But I will give you a little help.

The .dsp, .dsw, and .opt files are the project and workspace files. They have nothing to do with running the program. There should be a debug folder with a .exe file. That is the generated executable.