Excerpts from Peter van Heusden's message of 2016-03-10 08:21:39 +0100:
> P.S. just after telling students about PATH etc one of our more experienced
> students managed to make their laptop unusable by setting PATH incorrectly
> in their .bash_profile, so I am well aware of its dangers.

that's a failure case i haven't even thought of...

i wonder if that can be solved by a "add_home-bin_to_path.sh" script that can
be downloaded from somewhere and added to .bashrc.

that way, the worst students can do is to fail to load that script.

greetings, martin.

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