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[julian AT openit.de (Julian v. Bock)]

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