On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 04:22:03AM +0200, Sven Guckes wrote:
> * Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-08-04 01:02]:
> > On my systems I frequently have several mutts installed.
> > Each has its own manual page because each has its own install tree.
> > The /usr/local/bin/mutt is a symlink to the appropriate mutt
> > binary in its respective tree, and so is the manual entry.
> 
> > Users wanting the nondefault mutt put /opt/mutt-version/bin
> > in their PATH and /opt/mutt-version/man in their MANPATH.
> 
> Users like history majors and non-cs minors never edit
> their PATH because they no freakin' clue about this.

that's too broad a generalization.  Last week I was having a nice chat with
a fellow whose field of expertise is economics.  He's also a well-known
contributor to XEmacs...

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://invisible-island.net
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