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From: bfox@AUREL.CALTECH.EDU (Brian Fox)
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Subject: Message "foo: is a directory" with "foo" execuatable on path and "foo" subdir
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Date: 13 Jun 89 00:41:10 GMT
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   Date: 12 Jun 89 21:38:22 GMT
   From: milano!perseus!rcp@cs.utexas.edu  (Rob Pettengill)
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   In article <8906121841.AA11648@aurel.caltech.edu> bfox@ai.mit.edu writes:
   ;
   ;   From: milano!perseus!rcp@cs.utexas.edu  (Rob Pettengill)
   ;   Running SunOS 3.5 and bash 0.99 ...
   ;
   ;   "mail").  It appears that for any command called "foo" on my path, if
   ;   I have a subdirectory called "foo", then I get the message "foo": is a
   ;   directory. 
   ;   ...
   ;
   ;   ;rob
   ;
   ;This is a bug from versions earlier than .95.  Are you sure you are
   ;using .99?  I cannot recreate this bug.
   ;
   ;Brian Fox

   I just ftped this last week and built it on the sun 3.  I only made
   simple pathname changes in the makefile before building it.  As you can see
   the version is 0.99

   perseus:/usr/stp/rcp/tmp 88=> bash -version
   GNU bash, version 0.99
   perseus:/usr/stp/rcp/tmp 1=> which gcc
   /usr/local/bin/gcc
   perseus:/usr/stp/rcp/tmp 2=> mkdir gcc
   perseus:/usr/stp/rcp/tmp 3=> gcc
   gcc: is a directory
   perseus:/usr/stp/rcp/tmp 4=> rmdir gcc
   perseus:/usr/stp/rcp/tmp 5=> gcc
   gcc: No source or object files specified.

   ;rob

Please send me `printenv`.

Brian