Dot in PATH?

[Jeffrey Biesiadecki]

Hi -

In a recent flame war in alt.sources, it was said that it was a bad idea
to have '.' in your $PATH variable (I use tcsh, or csh, probably this
would apply for any shell).  What's wrong with doing this?

Jeff
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