From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 14 17:14:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCB7837B505 for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 17:14:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuyman@confusion.net) Received: from confusion.net (user-2iveb4r.dialup.mindspring.com [165.247.44.155]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA06319; Sun, 14 May 2000 20:14:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <391F40FF.7F9B2B77@confusion.net> Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 20:12:47 -0400 From: Laurence Berland Organization: B.R.A.T.T. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Omachonu Ogali , XF , Alex Kwan Subject: Re: A basic question about C programming (sloved) References: <20000514133307.A838@dds.nl> <20000514152939.R10128@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Instead of living with it, you can make yourself a ~/bin directory, throw that in your path, and compile all your own stuff there. Just be careful with the permissions on that directory. Ben Smithurst wrote: > > Omachonu Ogali wrote: > > > On Sun, 14 May 2000, XF wrote: > > > >> you have to give the PATH, > > export PATH="$PATH:." > > No. Live with typing "./" when you need to. Having "." in $PATH is > dumb (so I wasn't surprised to see one of the Linux distributions had it > like that by default). What happens when you mis-type a command when > you're in /tmp and someone has put a nasty script there? > > -- > Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. http://stuy.debate.net icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 The above email Copyright (C) 2000 Laurence Berland All rights reserved To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message