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From: jcburt@ipsun.larc.nasa.gov (John Burton)
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Subject: Re: Unix Configure script
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Date: 11 Apr 91 12:06:30 GMT
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In article <1991Apr10.214750.19556@news.iastate.edu> john@iastate.edu (Hascall John Paul) writes:
>
>   Once upon a time, I installed a package I received from the net and it
>had this terribly nifty script (named "Configure" as I recall) which
>looked around, and asked several questions, and learned all sorts of things
>about the system it was running on (as a prelude to installing whatever
>I was installing).
>
>   Does anyone know where I can find this wonderful thing?
>
>Many thanks,
>John (john@iastate.edu)

Trying getting a distribution copy of "patch" from the usenet archives (or 
other repositories). "patch" has a copy of the "configure" script in it to
help set things up...

John

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