In article <bjl.713562403@freyr> B.J.Lippolt@research.ptt.nl writes:
>sakaria@vipunen.hut.fi (Sakari Aaltonen) writes:
>
>>1. You have compiled your first hello.c for Linux. You type
>> hello
>>and nothing happens. Gotcha! Unlike MSDOS, say, Linux does NOT automatically
>>search your current directory. You should type
>> ./hello
>
>You can put '.' in your path. In 'csh' or 'tcsh' you do this as follows:
>
> % set path = (. <rest of your path>)
>
What happens if you are in /tmp, or some other world writeable directory,
or my directory, and I've left a trojan ls or something? I know have
access to all your files, and perhaps other machines you log in on.
Having . at the front of your path is just plain stupid.
If you MUST have . in your path, put it at the end.
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Microsoft is responsible for propogating the evils it calls DOS and Windows,
IBM for AIX (appropriately called Aches by those having to administer it), but neither is as bad as AT&T. Boycott AT&T, and let them know how you feel.
