Re: users as blobs

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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