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.
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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 :-)

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