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Re: Alias to change path on the fly - ALTERNATIVE

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From: Richard L. Goerwitz
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 1990 19:32

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In <PAUL.90Nov10154152@cheshire.ixi.uucp> paul@ixi.uucp (Paul Davey) writes:

>As an alternative solution I'd use a symbolic link to the bin and
>delete it and recreate it as required.

Ln -s isn't portable, as I'm sure you know.  Hmmm.

-Richard

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