diff -ru S.hp9000_700/src/syscomp/asmout.p pp3/hppop/v15.53/pop/src/syscomp/asmout.p
--- S.hp9000_700/src/syscomp/asmout.p	Thu Oct 23 14:43:19 2003
+++ pp3/hppop/v15.53/pop/src/syscomp/asmout.p	Thu Jul  2 12:26:05 1998
@@ -544,7 +544,7 @@
 		(Image name is in the environment variable "IM")
 	*/
 constant unix_ld_command_header =
-		'./ld -E -x -o $IM -e \'$START$\' -X 9999 +s \\\n';
+		'/bin/ld -E -x -o $IM -e \'$START$\' -X 9999 +s \\\n';
 
 
 	/*	Extra libraries to be added to the link command before -lc.
diff -ru S.hp9000_700/src/syscomp/os_comms.p pp3/hppop/v15.53/pop/src/syscomp/os_comms.p
--- S.hp9000_700/src/syscomp/os_comms.p	Wed Oct 22 01:31:05 2003
+++ pp3/hppop/v15.53/pop/src/syscomp/os_comms.p	Fri Apr  9 21:25:34 1999
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 );
 #_ELSE
 lconstant macro (
-	AS_CMD	= './asm',
+	AS_CMD	= '/bin/as',
 	AR_CMD	= '/bin/ar',
 );
 #_ENDIF