Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 20:12:47 -0400 From: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: Omachonu Ogali <oogali@intranova.net>, XF <gin@dds.nl>, Alex Kwan <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: A basic question about C programming (sloved) Message-ID: <391F40FF.7F9B2B77@confusion.net> References: <20000514133307.A838@dds.nl> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005140915080.20100-100000@hydrant.intranova.net> <20000514152939.R10128@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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Instead of living with it, you can make yourself a ~/bin directory,
throw that in your path, and compile all your own stuff there. Just be
careful with the permissions on that directory.
Ben Smithurst wrote:
>
> Omachonu Ogali wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 14 May 2000, XF wrote:
> >
> >> you have to give the PATH,
> > export PATH="$PATH:."
>
> No. Live with typing "./" when you need to. Having "." in $PATH is
> dumb (so I wasn't surprised to see one of the Linux distributions had it
> like that by default). What happens when you mis-type a command when
> you're in /tmp and someone has put a nasty script there?
>
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Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate
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Windows 98: n.
useless extension to a minor patch release for
32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a
16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor,
written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for
1 bit of competition.
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