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On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> >And it only
> >bites you if your path is perverse?
>
> That is true enough - you have to have /usr/ucb there for it to bite,
> and I at least consider that "perverse".
Actually Configure adds /usr/ucb at the end of PATH anyway, since, at
least for earlier versions of Solaris (2.4 is where I did this stuff)
Configure tries to use commands only found in /usr/ucb. (If memory
serves, hostname or perhaps domainname was the relevant command.)
But putting /usr/ucb early in PATH is definitely not the recommended
strategy.
Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
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