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Re: athena_path not defined in the average shell

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Jun 9 18:13:30 2003

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From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "03 Jun 2003 21:16:47 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 18:13:27 -0400

> The change does not appear intentional; however, athena_path is only
> there for compatibility with .path files.  I think you're a total
> outlier case, and there are other ways to do what you want (save your
> $athena_path in .environment after running your add commands, for
> instance).

OK, thanks, I'll play with that, and think it will solve my problem.

> You may find add -r helpful if you don't already know about it.

Yeah, I actually did know about this, but sometimes it's easier to
reset my path to my default than to figure out all of the things I
need to remove to accomplish the same thing.


	Jonathon

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