First test with Lilypond 2.2.6

[Jonathan C. Webster]

Hello All,

I used Lilypond some a few years ago when the command was "ly2dvi stuff.ly".

But now with a freshly installed 2.2.6 on a box running Linux RH7.3, I can't 
get off the zero peg. I am
running fvwm2, not Gnome or KDE.

Following the first suggestion in the tutorial, I invoke Lilypond on a test file

 music]$ cat testa1.ly
{ c'4 e' g' }
 music]$

Looking at that file with a hex editor shows nothing extra.
00000000: 7b20 6327 3420 6527 2067 2720 7d0a       { c'4 e' g' }.


 music]$ lilypond  testa1.ly
lilypond (GNU LilyPond) 2.2.6
Running lilypond-bin...
Now processing `testa1.ly'
Parsing...

/home//music/testa1.ly:1:1: error: parse error, unexpected '{':
{
  c'4 e' g' }

/home//music/testa1.ly:1:9: warning: Braces don't match:
{ c'4 e'
         g' }
Failed files: testa1.ly


lilypond: error: LilyPond failed on input file testa1 (exit status 1)
lilypond: warning: Running LilyPond failed. Rerun with --verbose for a trace.
music]$

Can someone please suggest what might be wrong?  Yes, there is lot more output with the 
"-V" flag, but
hopefully someone can already guess what might be a common first error.

TIA,
]
Jonathan Webster