In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/14/98 at 02:47 PM, Keith Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Personally I'm in the habit of typing "./" when I need to execute >something in the current directory. I've been burned too many times by >writing programs called "test" and "a.out" and executing the wrong binary >thinking the same named file in my current dir would be the one found. Those that hate typing "./" all the time can put something like ~/bin in their path, and keep executables in a private bin. Setting up the makefiles to put stuff in ~/bin isn't too hard either. The ~/bin directory shouldn't be writeable by others of course. Helge Hafting