> I don't mind adding more directories to the list in findroot, > and something like /usr/local/9vx is certainly a better entry > in that list than /home/rsc/plan9/4e (sorry).
no apologies necessary. I actually liked Ethan Grammatikidis' last comments regarding adding standard the standard locations. > What I didn't understand was the rationale behind putting > in a new environment variable when there is already a > command-line option. The argument about being right > for the users is bogus: the amount of work required to > make all users have the right environment variable setting > is about the same as the amount of work required to > make all users pass the right -r flag. what I had meant is simply that when a user tries to run a program which has been installed system wide it should simply work. If writing a shell script around the exe is considered a better way to go about it then I'm good with it. EBo --
