Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!vsi1!altnet!edc From: edc@ALTOS.COM (Eric Christensen) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: 'from' conflict with UCB Message-ID: <577@altnet.ALTOS.COM> Date: 8 Jul 88 09:44:22 GMT References: <1596@bu-tyng.bu.edu> <6138@uwmcsd1.UUCP> <561@altnet.ALTOS.COM> <7042@trwrb.UUCP> Reply-To: edc@altnet.UUCP (Eric Christensen) Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA. Lines: 24 In article <7042@trwrb.UUCP> ries@trwrb.dsd.trw.com.UUCP (Marc Ries) writes: > > I once heard about a wonderful new software product called PATH. > > It seems that if you put the elm "from" before the ucb "from" in > this PATH, things work just fine ;-) That's all fine and dandy, except for sites that install the Elm binaries in /usr/bin! What a nasty surprise, now you just overwrote your Berkeley from(1) with the elm from!!!! Oooops! While I personally don't believe in installing local software in /bin or /usr/bin, many people do. As such, I also don't believe in giving a loaded gun to an idiot... he'll probably shoot himself, or someone else :-) -- +-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+ | Eric D. Christensen | Email: edc@altnet.altos.com (uunet!altnet!edc) | | Altos Computer Systems +--------------------------------------------------+ | 399 West Trimble Road | Note: There are no spelling errors in this | | San Jose, Ca. 95131 | message.... I just can't type! | +-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+ | These views aren't Altos' - They're mine, all mine, and you can't have them| +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+