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From: mark@spider.co.uk (Mark Valentine)
Subject: Re: CONFIGURE Command - HELP!
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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 10:17:38 GMT
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In article <26mdbrINNj15@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> krostrin@cats.ucsc.edu (Ken Ostrin) writes:
>Once again, NetBSD has a misterious command called configure that disappears
>after you install and leave the initial shell.  Will someone please tell me
>what the syntax (or script or whatever it is) is....

That one's a shell function in /.profile on the inst2 floppy if I remember
correctly...

   # mount -r /dev/fd0a /mnt
   # more /mnt/.profile
   # umount /mnt

The other floppies will have different parts of the installation written
into /.profile and /install (a shell script).

		Mark.
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Mark Valentine, Spider Software <mark@spider.co.uk>             /\oo/\
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