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From: Marc C <mc.provisional@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: ada lapack
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 07:11:04 -0700 (PDT)
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On Friday, August 17, 2012 8:45:42 AM UTC-5, Leo Brewin wrote:

>  I had assumed that everybody would have . in their path. Is this a reasonable assumption?

No, it's not. All the recent Linux distributions I've used, at home and at work, do not out-of-the-box include the current directory on the default PATH.

Marc A. Criley