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Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 13:51:51 -0400
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Jesse wrote:
> 
>  Hello!  Sorry to bother you, but I have a real doozie of a problem
> here. You see, FreeBSD seems to think that NONE of the files that
> should be executable (such as /usr/X11R6/X, which DOES exist BTW),
> are actually executable.
>                         Jesse  Brown  (bextreme@sprynet.com)

If an executable is in your current directory, and your current
directory is not in your path then it will not run without typing a ./
in front of the executable.  (i.e.   ./X  )

Unix only looks in your path for the executable unless you explicitly
type the path name.

Fred Rappuhn
frappuhn@tir.com