>Anyway; I thought I'd inject yet another random thought into the mix.  Has
>anyone ever suggested making symbolic links to environment variables?
>Something to think about.

well...actually...i did at one point add bin to my path.  just bin,
all by itself.  no slashes.  because then i could put commands in a
subdir of somewhere i wanted to a specific thing (so they weren't
providing extra visual clutter) and also not have . in my path.

call me crazy...lots of people already do.  :)

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