Re: Re: Best OS
  By: The Curmudgeon to Digital Man on Sun Jul 15 2007 07:07 am

 > -=> Digital Man wrote to The Curmudgeon <=-
 > 
 > 
 >  >  That much I did have figured out... I was just typing in syncterm withou
 >  > ./  in front of it.  I didn't know about that syntax thingy. :)
 > 
 >  DM> By default, most Unix user profiles do not have '.' in the executable
 >  DM> search path.
 > 
 >  Ok, so it behooves me to ask, why is it necessary to start this program in
 > this manner.?

Because if '.' (the current directory) isn't in the exectuble search path than
you must either move the executable (in this case, syncterm) into a directory
that *is* in your search path or specify the path (full or relative) to the
executable file. './prognam' says to the shell: execute the file 'progname'
which is located in the current directory.

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