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Sourcing the PATH
Authored by: Glanz on Oct 20, '02 02:30:06PM

As I stated in my previous general message, I had a lot of trouble setting the paths to launch newly installed Unix apps. I temporarily went into the Ba$h and the zsh shells to set them for those respective shells. When I came back to tcsh, I discovered that everything worked perfectly. For some reason I can't figure out the sourcing wouldn't work until I quit the shell and come back to it. A mystery perhaps, or little BSD deamons having fun, or simply my incompetence.:) I found that in my case, sourcing the file in which I would write my paths was better done BEFORE I wrote the paths. Now that's backwards I know. Blame it on the daemons again!



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