Re: Improving "file" (was Re: Making Solaris 2.1 smarter...)

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From: Guy Harris
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 23:20

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>In any case, 'magic' doesn't use an external configuration file.  All
>the smarts are built in,

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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