[Klug-general] Now here's a funny thing.

[Michael E. Rentell]

I managed to buy a copy of Paul Hudson's Coding Academy which includes a 
copy of Ubuntu's latest offering with all the necessary dependencies for 
MonoDevelop.

I installed it under VirtualBox and started lesson one. That produces a 
version of Hello World which runs within MonoDevelop OK. If I then go 
and find that little .exe program with the cli and, as advised in the 
book, type ./ToDoList.exe  (name of file) it runs OK and displays 'Hello 
World' as the book expects.

Then I thought that perhaps PCLinuxOS (the host computer OS) would also 
have MonoDevelop available and it does so I installed it all.

I then repeated the short lesson one but when I came to inspect the file 
tree under the cli there was a cunning difference. Instead of 
ToDoList.exe it is listed as ToDoList.exe*  (note asterisk).

When I type ./ToDoList.exe it won't run and gives the message 'cannot 
execute binary file'.  The only difference between the Ubuntu listing in 
VirtualBox and the barefoot PCLOS listing is the asterisk.

Anyone any idea what I'm doing wrong here. Two develop environments, 
both version 2.00. Same program, one runs and one don't. Baffled.

All kind offerings gratefully received. I've gotta do something in me 
retirement to stop the mind atrophying !
MikeR