[geeks] and another silly netbsd question

[Dave McGuire]

On February 16, Big Endian wrote:
> >>  Is it recently installed?  logout and log back in.
> >
> >That fixed it.  Why does that do anything?  The PATH has never been changed
> >by me.
> 
> This seems to be a BSDism, but when I install something, it doesn't 
> register in the shells searches.  I think the shell keeps a static 
> list of all the things in its $PATH.  might be a csh/tcshism.

  It's not a BSDism, it's a csh-ism.  A good thing to do might be to try
a shell that's not stuck in the dark ages.  Personally, I use bash,
but many people seem happy with ksh, zsh, and others.  They all build
and run fine under NetBSD.

      -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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