From: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke)
Subject: Re: cygwin b20 bash path usage?
14 Nov 1998 23:28:19 -0800
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Hi Earnie,

[...]
>> They find commands in the current directory as long as PATH has an
>empty
>> component (or contains .) .
[...]
>Is this a documented feature?  If not then it is most likely a bug and

AFAIK it is documented, that "::" == ":.:" !

>will stop working this way in some future release?  Of course, it
>could be considered a benefit and then documented also, IMHO it is not
>a good idea to use undocumented features.

Bye.
Michael.
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