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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
- Subject: Re: Improving "file" (was Re: Making Solaris 2.1 smarter...)
- Message-ID: <16348@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 01:48:06 GMT
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- >This may, or may not, be convenient; a site might want to have a single
- >common copy of the program, but have different configuration files on
- >different machines. Can a "perl" script source another "perl" script?
- >If so, the command would be the first script, and the configuration file
- >would be the one it sources....
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- Or, alternatively, it could have all of the "standard" smarts built in,
- but, if possible, source another script that contains local additions;
- that way, you can keep the standard distribution and local additions
- separate, and be able to drop in an updated standard distribution
- without necessarily having to hack local additions in....
-