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Subject: Re: path oddity = my fault :-/
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To:	carlos@texne.com
CC:	rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Date:	Thu, 4 May 2000 04:31:17 -0400
From:	Tim Goodwin <tjg@star.le.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <RWQAAGs1ETmR0Q4A@ltsun0.star.le.ac.uk>

> My apologies for the subject "bug" report. It was my fault, due to
> the fact that I'm a newbie to Rc. I was setting $path in my ~/.rcrc
> file with:
>              path = ``(:){echo $PATH}

I'm glad you got to the bottom of the problem.  (Don't feel too
badly; I've made the same mistake myself of removing NL from $ifs,
and forgetting that it will be then be preserved in backquote
substitutions.)

But I don't understand why you want to do this: rc automatically keeps
$path and $PATH synchronized.

Tim.