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Message-Id: <199901201549.PAA139430@out4.ibm.net>
From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT usa DOT net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:50:18 -0500
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Subject: Re: bash 2.02.1 alpha port available
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> A common mistake is to forget that Bash (and any other Unix shell)
> don't consider the current directory to be implicitly prepended to
> PATH, and fail to say `./ding.bat' instead of `ding.bat'.  Is this the
> case, maybe?
> 

Yep, you're right. It wasn't a behavior I was expecting, and it also 
explains why I see a lot of './someprogram' in scripts.

Mark

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