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From: mitch@sgi.com (Tom Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  . in $path
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Date: 13 Apr 90 16:12:52 GMT
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In article <9004121536.AA19375@physics.phy.duke.edu> rgb@PHY.DUKE.EDU ("Robert G. Brown") writes:
* That one is an easy one.  IF you leave . in your path as root AND
* if a clever

Lets twist this a bit.  A 'programmer' called a couple weeks
back and could not get his program to run.  We tried 101
different things and went round and round.  Then out of the
blue he said he called his program -- Yes -- he realy did
call it 'test.c'.

The bottom line problem was his path found /bin/test time after time.
His edits and compiles were not the problem.  His search path was.


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