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From: jkokko@engels.hut.fi (Jari Kokko)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: To run programs from prompt...
Date: 13 Aug 1996 07:40:40 GMT
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
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References: <4ul1eq$927@tribune.usask.ca> <v620hdm8ry.fsf@kechara.flame.org>
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In article <v620hdm8ry.fsf@kechara.flame.org>,
Michael Graff  <explorer@flame.org> wrote:
>This should be in almost all unix newbie books.  Get one.  ;)
>
>Answer:   Add . to your path.

I hope the same newbie book tells why not to do it, right in the same
paragraph :-)

Jari "It's not my fault if you run *my* ls" Kokko