[Tutor] PRINTING A GIF IMAGE

alan.gauld@bt.com alan.gauld@bt.com
Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:57:21 -0000


> I'm just guessing, but.. could it be that the ./ above makes the image
> be executed? I don't see why it'd be so, but on *nix systems ./
> usually means execution.

Nope, '.' means execute thus:

$ . /foo 

executes /foo in a Bourne type shell environment.

./ is a path relative to the current directory(.).

Alan g