dired.el hard-codes /etc/chown

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From: Juha Takala
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1991 10:30

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In dired, dired-chown fails, because it wants to use /etc/chown.  On
Interactive SysV r3 it is /bin/chown.  How about letting shell find it out?

--- Juha Takala (Juha.Takala@VTT.FI) tel.: +358-0-456 6761 fax: +358-0-456
6538 Technical Research Centre, Laboratory of Electrical and Automation
Engineering Otakaari 7 B, 02150 Espoo, FINLAND

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