Program runs under sdb, but when called direct?!?!

[The Computer Guy]

In article <1024 at chinet.UUCP> megabyte at chinet.UUCP (Dr. Megabyte) writes:
        I have a program, the recent VC spreadsheet program on my 
        AT&T 3b2/400 with SVR2.  I compiled it without errors.  When I
        try to run it, the program does nothing, so I treid to use
        the sdb debugger on it.  When I used "sdb vc" and then issued
        the "r" command to run the program, it ran fine!!
 
        What could make a program run perfectly under the debugger, but
        not from the shell?

I had the very same problem once.  It turned out that my PATH 
environment variable did not search the current directory first, so 
the shell was actually executing a program in another directory, while 
sdb (using the program name as a pathname) executed the one in the
current directory.  Don't you hate stupid problems like this?  
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