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Thanks for the ideas but also a no go.
Xterm opens and just sits there with no output until I close
it.

So what I've done is installed the Allegro library (because I'm familiar with it from win)...

I don't think there's any problem with my linux. To test I tried
running from another partition with a different mint install and
also from an live debian cd and the results were the same.

Is...

Thanks wisecracker, but unfortunately my program is not that quick. It takes a good 30 secs to run and when I associate it with terminal, terminal opens and just sits there till I close it.
I also...

If I rename to .txt extension, double clicking program
will open dialog with option to run in terminal and it will execute without problem with visible screen output.
But at some point I'm going to...

Here are my system details:
EDITION="Cinnamon 64-bit"
DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 18 Sarah"
DESKTOP=Gnome
TOOLKIT=GTK



Correct!


No, compile from the command line.

Funny...

So I have ported a C++ program from windows to linux
and when I run it from terminal all is well. However
when executed from file manager there is no screen output.
The program runs and does what...

And you sir have nailed it and the answer was so simple, thank
you very much Don.

If your referring to this

It's a c++ program with roughly 300 lines of code and only
one system() call

You were correct btw, the way it was originally written was trying to access linux root directory.



Interesting, strangely it works both ways.



No errors everything compiles fine, just...

I think I understand the problem now

what windows sees as D:\Base\cpics

linux sees /media/mint/Storage/Base/cpics

And writing
sprintf(cbuf,"cp %s...

I'm new to Linux and trying to port
a c++ program from windows.

what I'm trying to do is copy a file to a directory off
the root of the drive

First off the program is located and running from...