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[Spencer Ogden <spencero AT mail.utexas.edu>]

I don't know if Aprentice is the best way to go about it. But I have had a 
need a few times to figure out what I needed to cast to get a certain 
command. Sometime this isn't easy. I almost wish the long description 
aways contained a list of binaries installed, so that a `gaze search` 
could be used...

Spencer

On Monday 05 August 2002 05:06 am, Julian v. Bock wrote:
> 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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