Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:33:57 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Tim Van Holder wrote:

> > Only /bin/sh or some others, like /usr/local/bin/perl, as well?
> > 
> > The difficulty is to decide where to draw the line.
> I suppose we could limit it to try $DJDIR/bin/foo.(exe|sh|pl|...)
> for /whatever/bin/foo (possibly limiting this login to paths where
> the last directory component is 'bin' (or possibly 'libexec')).

I don't think it's wise to limit the search to %DJDIR%/bin.  We
already look up the entire PATH in several other cases; we should do
the same here, or else we will have another subtle incompatibility.