how to put a program into .plan file
Root Boy Jim Cottrell
rbj at uunet.UU.NET
Thu Oct 4 13:08:16 AEST 1990
In article <2534 at polari.UUCP> 6sigma2 at polari.UUCP (Brian Matthews) writes:
>|An even better snoop catcher is to put an executable 'ls' in your directory.
>
>No UNIX hacker who deserves the name has . or an empty field in their
>path.
>--
>Brian L. Matthews blm at 6sceng.UUCP
I just checked mimsy. Chris Torek has `.' last in his path.
On our machine, the following people have `.' first:
Rick Adams
Brandon Allbery
Robert Elz (kre)
Dan Heller (argv)
The following people have `.' last:
Rich Salz (rsalz)
Eric Allman
John Quarterman (jsq)
Peter Honeyman
Kirk McKusick
Guy Harris
I put `.' first as well as most of the other staff here. I suppose
the reason is that, in keeping with the original UNIX philosophy,
we value convenience over security. Those who are slighty more
cautious (esp if they live on university machines :-) put `.' last.
I suppose we could all live without `.' in our path easily enuf.
Perhaps it is habit and optimism that keep it there.
--
Root Boy Jim Cottrell
<rbj at uunet.uu.net>
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