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diff --git a/docs/userguide.rst b/docs/userguide.rst index 1a13353..63d13af 100644 --- a/docs/userguide.rst +++ b/docs/userguide.rst @@ -40,10 +40,13 @@ In a newly created virtualenv there will also be a :command:`activate` shell script. For Windows systems, activation scripts are provided for the Command Prompt and Powershell. -On Posix systems, this also resides in :file:`/ENV/bin/`, so you can run:: +On Posix systems, this resides in :file:`/ENV/bin/`, so you can run:: $ source bin/activate +For some shells (e.g. the original Bourne Shell) you may need to use the +:command:`.` command, when :command:`source` does not exist. + This will change your ``$PATH`` so its first entry is the virtualenv's ``bin/`` directory. (You have to use ``source`` because it changes your shell environment in-place.) This is all it does; it's purely a |