Quote Originally Posted by garyng
The standard place for user installed application(not the debian way though) is /usr/local

try 'man find' for how to search for 'executables' in the system and giving 'extension'(that is a window/dos concept) to linux executables will break a lot of things. If you give the programs .lexe extension, you have to run it as 'myprogram.lexe', cumbersome.
Hi , Garyng - Thanks for your comments! I now have to agree with you (after
having just been for a run, and during it, concluding that my post was a "I should have engaged brain before putting mouse into gear" moment ) . Arrgh ... !