users as blobs

[Bill Hacker]

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
By contrast, *n*x is often irritating in that one can be sitting in the 
same dir as a given binary, but if it is not on the PATH, still have to 
prepend at least a './' - if not the entire path - in order to invoke 
said binary.

Even CP/M or DOS ain't *that* picky!


Append . to your PATH.

(Search about security issues with dot in the execution path. Make some 
trojan tools with common typos and misspellings as filenames and wait for 
a superuser to make a typo while in the directory you put the file. 
And never put the dot early in your PATH.)

Thanks for reminding me why I *don't*.. (put the '.' in the path...)

;-)

But I stand on the convenience of path-independent local-first & local-subtree 
search, per ancient Netware.

That can also make it *very* easy for an app to insyall cleanly, and/or keep its 
dependencies & modules aloof from other rev-levels, libs, etc.

Bill