> > > it was caused by 1 billion dumb people that bought Windows. If everyone had just > > said > > > no to windows and stuck with DOS (or some other alternative) we wouldn't have a > > > billion dumb computer users who only know how to click an icon and we wouldn't > have > > > those types of filenames being valid ;-) > > > > ...said the guy who struggled with an Linux-based OS (it's documented). > > My dad had a hard time adjusting to filenames being case-sensitive, and to needing > "./" to run executables in the directory you're in.
You can add "." to your shell's rc file / $PATH. Dunno why it's not the default setting.