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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: finding things in the source tree, a proposal
Message-ID: <1990Jun14.212541.7991@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 14 Jun 90 21:25:41 GMT
References: <2083@esquire.UUCP>
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In article <2083@esquire.UUCP>, yost@esquire.UUCP (David A. Yost) writes:
|> Imagine this:
|> 
|> Thinks to self: Hmm, where is the source to thingy?
|> Types this:     cd /src/where/`which thingy`
|> Et voila!

I like your idea, Dave.

I would like to point out, though, that with judicious use of cdpath,
this can already be done.  I've done a couple of Unix utilities ports
in the past 7 years, and maintained X clients for over a year now.  With
such a large number of items, I've always had elements from my source
trees in my cdpath.  The source for 'ls' is always a 'cd ls' away.

David Elliott
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