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From: pilotti@telesoft.UUCP (Keith Pilotti @shine)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: vi bug, or how to set up .cshrc
Message-ID: <173@telesoft.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 06:27:15 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 18 06:27:15 1985
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In article <2585@sun.uucp> gnu@sun.uucp (John Gilmore) writes: 
>KEITH F. PILOTTI of TeleSoft said: 
>> 
>>         set path = ( . ~ ~/bin ~/frammis /usr/ucb /usr/bin /bin )
>>         if ( ! $?prompt ) exit
>
>Actually, the "set path" is not needed.  Path is put into the
>environment variable PATH, which persists across all processes you
>create.  Set it in your .login . 
    
    This is true, except for remote commands.  4.2BSD `rsh'
    does not propagate PATH across to the remote machine.  The remote
    process gets a system default PATH modified by ".cshrc". 

>Also note that it's often a bad idea to put "." ahead of the standard
>directories in your path.  This leaves you open to trojan horses
>that will run when you type "cat" or "ls" as you look around. 

    I like suprises, and personally consider finding trojan horses a
    feature :-), however I agree that the *Super-User*'s path should
    NOT contain "." !  The above ".cshrc" example, without the ".", 
    installed in /.cshrc is a good way to guarantee this. 

    /+\ Keith P
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