From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Sam <sah@softcardsystems.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] File server for NT
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Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 09:20:02 -0400
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> i have no idea why the default is (.  /bin).
>

Just out of curiosity, how many times have
others found it useful to be able to specify
the "path" from $path?  Excluding the current
debate about the pecking order of dot ('cause
that's a good reason if folks fall on one of
two stakes), wouldn't it be less like Unix
and more like Plan 9 to do something like
have rc bind . to /bin for each cd?

... or is that just too wasteful?  The code
to parse the path is fairly small and fits
into the rest of the `struct word' semantics.
It's also not very good for rc's portability.
I suppose one could ignore the path given
in plan9.c:/Execute, but that's not going to
save much on code clarity.

Anyhow - just curious.

Sam