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



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