Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!maytag!vlsi!watale!tom From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Why "shar: Shell Archive (v1.22)" is bad Message-ID: <3294@watale.waterloo.edu> Date: 25 Sep 89 18:01:05 GMT References: <14502@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <4155@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> Sender: daemon@watale.waterloo.edu Reply-To: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) Organization: WATMIMS Research Group, University of Waterloo Lines: 18 Bill Stewartwrites: > While we're at it, can I put in a plug for trashing the > PATH=/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/bin > Some of us don't run Berkeley (gasp!) and get very annoyed > at having to go edit shar files to delete the line. > > PATH=/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/bin:$PATH > would do just fine, an will accomodate people whose > filesystems are arranged differently. Shells on MS-DOS also choke on this; you might be on d: and you /bin is on c: and it ends up that the shell script can't do anything... :-( Please, let's change this! \tom haapanen "now, you didn't really expect tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu my views to have anything to do watmims research group with my employer's, did you?" university of waterloo