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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:10:38 +0100
From: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@corecode.ath.cx>
To: Kevin Golding <kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Patching for PREFIX
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On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 15:04:34 +0000
Kevin Golding <kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> I'm making a port of some Perl scripts which have the path to a config
> file hard coded into them and I'm wondering what's the best approach.

you could extract the dirname of the binary, remove "/bin" and add
"/etc" :)

cheers
  simon

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