????? HELP!!! what is wrong with this code? ???????

terry jones tcjones at watdragon.waterloo.edu
Sat Oct 8 15:36:52 AEST 1988


In article <192 at taux02.UUCP+ amos at taux02.UUCP (Amos Shapir) writes:
+In article <8271 at alice.UUCP+ debra at alice.UUCP () writes:
++Your code is just fine. The problem is that you named your program "test".
++There is a standard utility "test" in /bin, and if that comes before your
++current directory in your $PATH, you actually execute /bin/test instead
++of your own program.
+
+More likely, 'test' is a shell built-in command so it gets executed
+before anything on PATH (/bin seldom precedes '.' in $PATH of regular
+users).
+-- 
+	Amos Shapir				amos at nsc.com
+National Semiconductor (Israel) P.O.B. 3007, Herzlia 46104, Israel
+Tel. +972 52 522261  TWX: 33691, fax: +972-52-558322
+34 48 E / 32 10 N			(My other cpu is a NS32532)


Here we go............



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