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From: ferg@88opensi.88open.ORG (John Ferguson)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Unix Configure script
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Message-ID: <1991Apr11.162545.952@88opensi.88open.ORG>
Date: 11 Apr 91 16:25:45 GMT
References: <1991Apr10.214750.19556@news.iastate.edu>
Organization: 88open Consortium Ltd., San Jose
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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?
> 

I believe you are referring to the Configure script for rn/rrn.  There are
one or two other packages that try to do intelligent self-configuration (I
can't remember where I stashed them).  It would be great if more people
could take the time Larry Wall did to set up configuration scripts.

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