From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 9 10:15:22 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA17477 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 10:15:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA17472 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 10:15:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.11 #1) id 10AHSt-0006l7-00; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 18:00:51 +0000 Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 18:00:51 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Bruce Albrecht Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: math.h ? Message-ID: <19990209180051.A25940@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <14015.44866.751556.601222@zuhause.zuhause.mn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <14015.44866.751556.601222@zuhause.zuhause.mn.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bruce Albrecht wrote: > However, if you put "." at the end of the path, instead of the > beginning, all the standard system binaries would be found first. That would make it not quite as bad, but it still isn't perfect. You could mistype a command, for example. You could be used to having a command on one machine, but find it isn't in the normal PATH on the other machine, for some reason. etc. -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message