On Jan 19, 2004, at 8:51 AM, Daniel McAferty wrote:

> I know a lot of people don't like to do this but I
> add the "." to may path. Then I don't have to type ./ to
> run a command located in my current directory.

That's really unsafe! Well maybe it's not that unsafe if you are the 
only user but it's still a bad habbit. You can accomplish the same 
thing safely by putting a bin directory in your home directory and 
adding that to your path.