Installed program not found

[dave at tokyocomedy.com (Dave Gutteridge)]

>You can issue this command to find that program (if it exists) on your
>machine:
>
>find / -name 'wacomcpl'
>  
>
Great! Thank you. Turns out it was in /usr/bin/local.
I would have thought /usr/bin/local would be on the default path. Can I 
set it to be?

Dave