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To: chad@anasazi.com
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Subject: Re: documentation suggestion 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Mar 1997 00:47:06 MST."
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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 00:00:54 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Silly me.  I took the word "override" in the man page literally.  I
> quote:
> 
>     @srcdir directory
>     Sets the internal directory pointer for _creation only_ to directory.
>     That is to say that it overrides @cwd for package creation but
>     not extraction.
> 
> How about instead for the second sentence to read "Works just like @cwd
> except it is ignored during extraction."

Uh, but it's correct. :-)

@srcdir really does override, that is to say overlay, @cwd.  The two
values can exist independantly of one another and @srcdir is only
preferred if seen during creation, after that the @cwd variable
takes precedence.

					Jordan