From: Niranjan Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
How about just renaming the find.exe that comes with Windows. At least this
is what I did few months back and so far no problems.
IMO it is unwise to perturb standard software on standard systems.
Just like on Unix, various other programs may assume that standard
tools like find are available on the search path, and thes might
become broken if you alter or shadow the standard configuration.
Your change would break Find on the Windoze Start menu unless you
carefull edited it. There are other Windows programs that, when they
can't find some expected component like a help file, offer to try to
find it for you. I don't know whether they use Windoze find, and I
don't necessarily think this is a good feature, but I prefer not to
derange my base system unnecessarily.
In my earlier suggestion I had forgotten that bash and other Unix-like
shells have separate search paths (e.g. in .bashrc) that could
more-safely be altered than the global one in autoexec.bat. That's
what Paul suggested, and that's the conservative solution I would
recommend.
