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From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Why "shar: Shell Archive  (v1.22)" is bad
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Date: 25 Sep 89 18:01:05 GMT
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Bill Stewart  writes:
> 	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