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From: mellon AT fugue DOT com (Ted Lemon)
Subject: Re:
30 Oct 1996 17:42:59 -0800 :
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Oct 1996 09:18:00 PST."
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> Hmm... one of the things I tried was to add . to the path in bash (not
> under dos) as
> 
> export PATH=.:$PATH
> 
> This didn't have any affect.

/bin needs to be the first thing in your path.  So you fixed one
thing, but broke another (don't be too embarrassed - I did the same
thing when I was debugging this problem).  Put /bin first in your
path, and . later in your path, and it should all work.  You do have a
copy of bash in /bin, right?

			       _MelloN_
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