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Subject: Re: Elm installation problems
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Date: Fri, 8-May-87 03:48:13 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  8 03:48:13 1987
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In article <1745@hplabsc.HP.COM> taylor@hpldat (Dave Taylor) writes:
>	b) dirname command not found
>		no dirname command (at least in UCB universe)
>

I don't know what the original dirname is/was, but here's a script
that I put in my path to emulate it:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/csh -f

echo $1:h
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