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

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From: Guy Harris
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:48
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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....

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