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Subject: Re: Modified majordomo checker (was Re: another silly question)
From: Brent @ GreatCircle . COM (Brent Chapman)
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 10:28:49 +0100
To: "Torin/Darren/Who Ever..." <torin @ daft . com>, "Vincent D. Skahan" <vds7789 @ aw101 . iasl . ca . boeing . com>
Cc: pdc @ lunch . engr . sgi . com (Paul Close), walter @ nexchi . com, majordomo-workers @ GreatCircle . COM

At 12:43 AM 11/10/95, Torin/Darren/Who Ever... wrote:
>"Vincent D. Skahan" spoke unto the world and said:
>>oh what the heck.  I was 'hurling perl' and needed a diversion for a while
>>anyway...this is what was posted earlier, with some perl5 ('use English')
>>in there to make it at least a little more readable to me at least.
>
>Thanks.
>
>>I call the script "config-test" since 'test' is such a bad name to use
>>for a script because it's built into some shells.
>
>Except that people should invoke it with ./wrapper test or
>/usr/local/lib/majordomo/wrapper test or whatever and that shouldn't be
>a problem.

Until they think "gee, I wonder what happens if I run it without the
wrapper?", and try to do just "test".  I think Vincent is right to rename
it.


-Brent

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