All Alcor accounts are created with a search path that includes all locally installed software.

When your account is created, your search path looks like this:

set path=(`/local/bin/local_path -csh` /usr/bin ~ ~/bin .)

This gives you access to system software, locally installed software, and programs and scripts in your own home directory, your private "bin" directory, and whatever your current directory happens to be (which is what the "." signifies in the above path).

Access to local software is supplied by the phrase

`/local/bin/local_path -csh`

That phrase inserts into your path the directory "/local/paths", under which most local software can be found, and possibly other directories as well, depending on how local software was installed. See the local_path manpage for more information.

If you've removed this, either put it back, or at least add the directory "/local/paths" somewhere early in your path. Otherwise, to use local software you'll have to type the full pathname every time you enter the command.

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