Brian Beesley wrote:
> .... The problem is that early DOS somehow got the idea
> that users were too lazy to file executables in sensible places, so allowed
> exe's in the current working directory to be run by default.
>
> Maybe it didn't matter when "bulk storage" was a 160KB floppy drive.
>
actually, that behavior predates directory support in DOS... PCDOS 1.0
circa 1982 had no subdirectories, and duplicated CP/M 2.2's behavior,
which also had no subdirectories. There was no path, programs were
executed from the current ('default') drive, or you specified the drive
(A:myprogram) on the command line. MSDOS 2.0 added subdirectory
support but copied the default behavior, and its been a legacy ever since.
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