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From: Faried Nawaz <fn@uidaho.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: compiled program won't run.
Date: 14 Nov 1995 20:10:46 -0800
Organization: People's Front Against WWW
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In-reply-to: Ian W Taylor's message of Sat, 11 Nov 95 09:59:34 GMT
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In article <816083974snz@beckley.demon.co.uk> Ian W Taylor <iwta@beckley.demon.co.uk> writes:
$ If you have compiled your program and produced an executable in
$ your current directory you will probably find that your current
$ directory is not in the PATH environmental variable.
$
$ So set
$ PATH=.:$PATH
no, do
PATH=$PATH:.
you really don't want the `.' first in your path; see J's example.