Re: ftp site for the unix WHICH command

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From: Bas de Bakker
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:29

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>>>>> On 20 Jan 93 18:30:02, friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman) said:

nf> Personally, I would advise against using `which'.  It is
nf> [t]csh-centric and does *bad* things by deliberately sourcing your
nf> .cshrc (this is a value judgement and I'm not going to waste time
nf> defending my position---just accept that I think it's bad).

The sourcing part is horrible indeed. Nevertheless, I use 'which'
quite often as it's a zsh builtin. It simply looks in the command hash
table.

Bas.

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