From: kgold@watson.ibm.com (kgold)
Subject: Re: Newbie error compiling program
Date: 9 Feb 2004 21:55:06 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c08vjq$euo$1@news.btv.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87n07tvgy2.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de
Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> writes:
> "youKnowme" <phoenix@home.net> writes:
>
> > Thank you, this fixed the problem. I have another related question. How do i
> > get emacs to know that a program that i want to execute is in my current
> > directory? At the moment, I have to keep typing ./ before the executable
> > name. How can I set it up to do this automatically?
>
> The environment variable $PATH can contain the entry ".".
>
> But I don't recommend to do this. Imagine you do
>
> cd /tmp
> ls -la
>
> and some bad guy has written /tmp/ls which deletes your hard disk.
How about if you put the . at the end of the search path?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-09 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-07 17:08 Newbie error compiling program youKnowme
2004-02-07 17:10 ` GVK
2004-02-07 17:46 ` youKnowme
2004-02-08 13:28 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-02-09 21:55 ` kgold [this message]
2004-02-12 13:56 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-02-09 21:58 ` kgold
2004-02-09 19:11 ` Kevin Rodgers
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