On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Oron Peled wrote: > To summarize: the folk tale about avoiding commands named test (or > Nee, for that matter) is like trying to cure a virus with Aspirin.
this is wrong, as it does not take into account the fact that a newcomer is sometimes accustomed to the DOS way, where '.' is always in the PATH, implicitly. as such, they don't think they need to use './test'. with other programs, they would get a 'command not found' error. with a program like 'test', they will get such an obscure error message that they'll have no idea how to even begin debugging it. -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
