hi all!

i've got a question about how i'm setting up my posix path.  in addition
to what being defined in /etc/profile, in /etc/profile.local, there are
two export statements...

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/contrib/bin
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/java/latest/bin

...but what's missing is '.'  the 'reason'(?) for this is the other
bill&dave (hassell and totsch :-) most effectively convinced me (or at
least gently led me down the rose garden path) that having dot in your
path is a bad thing(tm).  granted they were talking from a unix admin
point-of-view....  as i remember what they said -- with dot in your
path, you innocently type <something> that someone else has co-op'd
(kinda like udc's in mpe land) and <something> does that dreaded bad
thing.  (obviously bill&dave are very good typist...)

so, am i being overly cautious?  or....     - d 'sounds like 9000-l to
me :-)'

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