Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!lcc.bob@ucla-locus From: lcc.bob%ucla-locus@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: more csh path Message-ID: <16984@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 27-Feb-84 14:19:19 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.16984 Posted: Mon Feb 27 14:19:19 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 13:32:41 EST Lines: 18 From: Bob EnglishLeaving the user's path intact and giving fully qualified pathnames can cause problems for the programs exec'd by the shell. Believe it or not, some programs actually assume that the program known as "foo" actually has a specific set of options which cause a specific set of actions, whether or not the name they give it is fully qualified. Short of eliminating pathname searches at any but the command level and requiring all programs to exec fully qualified load modules, you have to set the path yourself anyway. And I'd hate to try to move a bin directory on a system that had fully qualified pathnames hardcoded into ALL of its programs (user and system). Try adding /usr/sys5 to that and retaining soe measure of consistency. --bob--