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  • From: julian AT openit.de (Julian v. Bock)
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Reducing the ISO
  • Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 12:06:45 +0200

Hi

>>>>> "AS" == Andrew Stitt <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com> writes:

>> Also... we could go back to a system we had before (the KS thing)
>> which I thought was cool... there were "fake" system commands
>> installed, little shell scripts that automatically cast the program
>> or package in question when they were first run. So, for instance,
>> if you typed $ lynx
>>
>> and lynx wasn't installed, it would cast automatically. I can think
>> of several commands that this would be very handy for.
>>
AS> i think thats just the apprentice mode, which ive never tried but
AS> i read that it did something very much like that.

The apprentice mode didn't install scripts but used some bash stuff
(aliases? functions?) to perform the task. The
/var/lib/sorcery/apprentice file which contains the mappings does not
exist anymore though.

Julian




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