> ... unix looked in local directory first 30 years ago, so I suppose there is good reason to have changed it. As far as I am aware, Unix only looked in the current working directory 30 years ago if you told it to. >How do I deal with paths? Using the bash shell, put this in your ~/.bashrc file: PATH=.:$PATH That prefixes . (the current working directory) to the paths to search when looking for executables. HTH, --Eljay
