Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 16:13:57 -0400 From: "Brad Bates" <bab@icon.lal.ufl.edu> To: "FreeBSD-questions" <FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: a.out programs are not executable! Makefiles Message-ID: <B0000004632@tangelo.lal.ufl.edu>
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> You might
> a) specify the full path /home/user/project/a.out
> b) use a relative pathname ./a.out
> c) add the CWD to your PATH PATH=$PATH:.; export PATH
>
> I prefer methodes a) and b) and I really dislike methode c), since you
> might call the wrong version of 'test' or whatever just because there's
> one file called this name in the current directory ("by chance" :).
> Methods a) and b) make you much more aware of what you're doing.
Not to mention the "elementary" security problems this can present
when someone lays a bogus (and evil) program in front of you...
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> --
> virtually yours -- G.Sittig@abo.FreiePresse.DE
>
> If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above
> ask your parents or an adult to help you.
Okay, but I don't think any of them are in my $PATH either ;)
bab
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