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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: how to put a program into .plan file
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Date: 4 Oct 90 04:23:43 GMT
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In article <107255@uunet.UU.NET> rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim Cottrell) writes:
> I suppose we could all live without `.' in our path easily enuf.
> Perhaps it is habit and optimism that keep it there.

Yep, I think so. I spent a couple of months training myself away from a
path with . into a path without, and I've never regretted the change:
it's perfectly natural to me now to execute programs with ./ if they're
in the current directory. I still have a dotpath alias (and its inverse,
nodotpath) to deal with those annoying shell scripts that depend on . in
the path; I rarely use it.

---Dan