Subj : Re: MIS POLL
To   : paulie420
From : Al
Date : Wed Nov 11 2020 08:48 pm

  Re: Re: MIS POLL
  By: paulie420 to Al on Wed Nov 11 2020 05:57 pm

 pa> You know, when I posted this it was more for the wondery of if I needed
 pa> full paths or not; I actually do run ./mis send, too... and ./mis poll for
 pa> another event... 

WHen I first started using linux this all caused me lots of wonder too.. :)

../ means current directory. Linux never looks for binary files to run in your current directory the way other OSs do, it only looks in the path. That's why you always need to add the ./ if you want to run a binary in your current directory.

"./mis poll send" will send any mail in your outbound but will do nothing if there is nothing to go.

"./mis poll 21:1/100" will poll 21:1/100 even if the outbound is empty.

 pa> If I were a betting man, I think I'd say that under Linux, you can still
 pa> just call it with ./ ... that is basically 'a full path' as long as mis
 pa> runs in /mystic... 

Only if the file you want to run is in your current directory.

It doesn't hurt to use a full path either, /mystic/mis poll send" or whatever the path is.

 pa> I think for the Windows users maybe they are the ones that need to modify
 pa> the commands when upgrading to a47... (With full pathnames; I know we all
 pa> have to modify to mis...)

On Windows, DOS and OS/2 the ./ isn't needed because those OSs will run a command in your current directory before looking in the path.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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