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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!bs
From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: binaries are unavailable when moved to /usr/bin until re-logon
Date: 22 Sep 1992 12:31:50 GMT
Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany
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In article <1992Sep21.175158.25399@Saigon.COM>, David.Fox@Saigon.COM writes:
 > Coming from a DOS world, I'm used to having the commands available immediately
 > after they've been moved, assuming of course, the directory they are moved to
 > is in the path.
 > 
 > This doesn't seem to be the case with 386BSD.  Question: is this expected
 > behavior?

If you use csh : yes.
Tell your csh to "rehash" so it can find all those programs.

-Bernard