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Date:      Sun, 14 May 2000 15:29:39 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        Omachonu Ogali <oogali@intranova.net>
Cc:        XF <gin@dds.nl>, Alex Kwan <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: A basic question about C programming (sloved)
Message-ID:  <20000514152939.R10128@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005140915080.20100-100000@hydrant.intranova.net>
References:  <20000514133307.A838@dds.nl> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005140915080.20100-100000@hydrant.intranova.net>

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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


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