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From: ted@oz.plymouth.edu (Ted Wisniewski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Installation problem, Can't exec as:
Date: 24 Aug 1995 11:13:15 -0400
Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, NH.
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Message-ID: <41i4ub$m7b@oz.plymouth.edu>
References: <41f001$6c@buffnet2.buffnet.net>
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In article <41f001$6c@buffnet2.buffnet.net> root@buffnet.net (Superuser) writes:
>I couldnt run CC or MAN withoput getting:
>
>cc: installation error, cant exec as: Not a directory
>
>Etc etc.. turns out one of the dirs in my path statement refered to a file.
>
>I would think and opsys would ignore it - or error message me but 
>continue to look at the next path in line.

What shell are you using?  This is more likely something to be fixed with
the shell (sh/csh/ksh/etc....)


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