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Re: [Haifux] RFC: Summary of the Basic Use Lecture

Nadav Har'El
Fri, 21 Sep 2001 14:23:51 -0700

On Fri, Sep 21, 2001, Orna Agmon wrote about "Re: [Haifux] RFC: Summary of the Basic 
Use Lecture":
> it can be very confusing when you want your executabe to work, but you
> gave it a name which is aliased. or is somewhere before the current dir in
> the path.

Oh, and the most infamous example is people calling their program "test",
and then running it and spending *hours* trying to figure out how come it
doesn't generate any output ;) I've seen this happen with two different
users.

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