From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 14 7:34: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E84F337B743 for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 07:33:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12qzOm-00045k-00; Sun, 14 May 2000 15:29:40 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12qzOl-0004Lt-00; Sun, 14 May 2000 15:29:39 +0100 Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 15:29:39 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Omachonu Ogali Cc: XF , Alex Kwan Subject: Re: A basic question about C programming (sloved) Message-ID: <20000514152939.R10128@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000514133307.A838@dds.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message