Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!jmsellens
From: jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu
Newsgroups: uw.mfcf.bugs
Subject: showpath moves directories to the end of the path
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Date: 25 Aug 89 08:17:50 GMT
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From: "John M. Sellens" <jmsellens>

if PATH is a:b:c
then
  showpath current a
seems to spit out b:c:a which to me seems kind of wrong.
When I've used this, I haven't meant to change the order of things,
I just wanted some way to guarantee that a particular directory
was in there, but not to override the user's preferences.