@@ -369,11 +369,11 @@
 	;; FIXME SOMEDAY: not good how this is so obtuse, this hack is to 
 	;;                allow running from dashboard 
 	(local-megatest  (let* ((lm  (car (argv)))
 				(dir (pathname-directory lm))
 				(exe (pathname-strip-directory lm)))
-			   (conc dir "/"
+			   (conc (if dir (conc dir "/") "")
 				 (case (string->symbol exe)
 				   ((dboard) "megatest")
 				   ((dashboard) "megatest")
 				   (else exe)))))
 	(test-sig   (conc "=" test-name ":" (item-list->path itemdat) "=")) ;; test-path is the full path including the item-path