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

[David Katinsky]

> 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?


There is a program called vc, "version control", which lives in
/usr/bin. It is likely that this was in your PATH before the
spreadsheet. When you ran sdb, *IT* searched in the current directory
for a program to debug. This all depends, of course, upon your PATH.
If you do run things in the current directory first, this is not the
answer.


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