Hey everyone. I'm back again. The site you gave was way cool. Definitely bookmarked material. I do have a greater understanding of the terminal and how its used. And as you all know the x terminal is somewhat lacking. So instaed of just learning through x terminal. I decided to try alot of the same commands through ubuntu lucid lynx terminal. and found that more user friendly. I'll also admit to jumping to the spots that I wanted to know the most of and skipping over alot of things. And still the possibility of the answer being back there is still quite possible. So I'll still pose this question. I had tried the same inputs and a few others that I had found in other tutorials. And still end up with the same answer.

gcc: program.c: no such file or directory
gcc: program.c: no input file.

The previous was from the ubuntu terminal.
and I had myself in the same directory as where the program.c file was. I had the codetest.c file in the Desktop directory and I entered cd /home/user/Desktop which had placed me into the same place as the program. And I still got the same answer. In closing I'll say this. I feel I'm making a small simple error. ANd I'll most likely go DOOH!!!! when I discover how simple and miniscule it was. ANd still Thanx a bunch a head of time for any help. One more quick question? How do add more commands to the terminal? So it can be similar to ubuntu terminal. Because man and info pages are pretty sweet.