[patch] adding ~/bin to path

[Chris Abbey]

At 23:56 12/2/00 -0500, Erdely, Michael wrote:
>Pardon me if I misunderstand, but I just added this line to ~/.bashrc:
>export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
>
>Exited bash and reopened bash.
>echo $PATH returned the old path with "/home/mike/bin:" in front of it.

yup, that's the objective. But ~/.bashrc isn't shipped by default,
/etc/profile is. Putting it in ~/.bashrc also puts the responsibility
on each user, whereas putting it in /etc/profile has the system
do it, just like every *nix I've ever worked on.

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