From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 29 01:11:10 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA18830 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 01:11:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gw-nl3.philips.com (gw-nl3.philips.com [192.68.44.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA18824 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 01:11:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com) Received: from smtprelay-nl1.philips.com (localhost.philips.com [127.0.0.1]) by gw-nl3.philips.com with ESMTP id KAA00665 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 10:11:06 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com) Received: from smtprelay-eur1.philips.com(130.139.36.3) by gw-nl3.philips.com via mwrap (4.0a) id xma000662; Fri, 29 Jan 99 10:11:06 +0100 Received: from hal.mpn.cp.philips.com (hal.mpn.cp.philips.com [130.139.64.195]) by smtprelay-nl1.philips.com (8.8.5/8.6.10-1.2.2m-970826) with SMTP id KAA05069 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 10:11:05 +0100 (MET) Received: (qmail 4950 invoked by uid 666); 29 Jan 1999 09:11:27 -0000 Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 10:11:26 +0100 From: Jos Backus To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mergemaster rocks! Message-ID: <19990129101126.A4698@hal.mpn.cp.philips.com> Reply-To: Jos Backus References: <199901280812.TAA29221@lightning.itga.com.au> <19990128024920.C16540@futuresouth.com> <199901281431.JAA30813@whizzo.transsys.com> <19990128163314.F80672@hal.mpn.cp.philips.com> <36B09672.C98F4B91@gorean.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <36B09672.C98F4B91@gorean.org>; from Studded on Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 08:55:14AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 08:55:14AM -0800, Studded wrote: > I've had several requests for that. The solution I would propose is to > specify the full path to your pager in the PAGER environment variable. > Because of what it does, I was ultra paranoid with things like PATH, so > I'd prefer not to add more directories. I see your point, yes. > Well I definitely wouldn't put /usr/local first.. you'd be better off > with PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin if you wanted to do it this way. Well, this way it is possible to transparently override system commands by the same name. Of course, as always, you have to know what you are doing. Anyway, thanks for this very useful tool. Cheers, -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Reliability means never _/ _/ _/ having to say you're sorry." _/ _/_/_/ -- D. J. Bernstein _/ _/ _/ _/ Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com _/_/ _/_/_/ use Std::Disclaimer; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message