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To: splyaski@cmp.com (Plyaskin Sergey)
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Subject: Re: path question 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 04 Oct 95 09:46:40 EDT."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 07:02:45 -0700
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>
>Hi folks,
>
>I am running FreeBSD 2.1 July SNAP.
>As is, I have to use the absolute path in order to run my applications, for 
>example:
>./usr/local/bin/httpd
>Without that dot, it does not run even though I have /usr/local/bin in my 

   You apparantly don't have httpd in /usr/local/bin. It appears that you
instead have it in usr/local/bin (a subdirectory of your current directory,
which I would guess is your login directory). A "." it *not* an absolute
path, quite the opposite; "." refers to a path relative to your current
directory.

-DG