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From: jeffb@aquifer.las.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey Biesiadecki)
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Subject: Dot in PATH?
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Date: 24 Jan 91 20:34:23 GMT
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Hi -

In a recent flame war in alt.sources, it was said that it was a bad idea
to have '.' in your $PATH variable (I use tcsh, or csh, probably this
would apply for any shell).  What's wrong with doing this?

Jeff
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** Jeff Biesiadecki           ** University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign    **
** jeffb@aquifer.las.uiuc.edu ** Departments of Geology and Computer Science **
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