On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Ken Weingold wrote:

> I am getting a new shell account where I am limited 50 megs of space.
> Even though I use my own patched version of mutt, they do have it
> installed.  What I want to do is use the mutt binary from ~/bin, but
> use the rest of the stuff from the system directories.  What is the
> best way to do this?  I am thinking I guess about compile parameters,
> etc.

> Thanks.

One option would be to put ~/bin into your $PATH statement.
I use bash and it is setup in my ~/.bash_profile file.

        # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists

        if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
            PATH="./:~/bin:/usr/lib/xscreensaver:${PATH}"
        fi

HTH

-- 
Knute

You live, You die.  Enjoy the interval!
        -- Clarence

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