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Christopher J. Booth wrote:
> 
> I reinstalled FreeBSD 2.1.5 over the weekend. I expect to be able, for
> instance, to type
> 
>    startx
> 
> or
> 
>    xinit
> 
> and get a result, but I get a message that there is no such command. They are
> in /usr/X11R6/bin, but it does not seem reasonable that I should have to key
> that in every time. Nor should I have to do some link or shell script.
> Shouldn't the installation have given me these commands?
> 
> How do I fix this?

Are the directories on your current path ??


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