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Re: An unfulfilled requirement maybe?

From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:20:44 +0000
To: "Vasil Rangelov" <boen.robot@gmail.com>
Cc: <public-xml-processing-model-comments@w3.org>
Message-ID: <f5b3aurebqr.fsf@hildegard.inf.ed.ac.uk>

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Vasil Rangelov writes:

> "search path"? What is that? That's the first time I hear about it, and I
> found no info on Wikipedia about it.

The PATH environment variable.  On your proposal, how can I write a
pipeline which e.g. runs perl w/o knowing the full path to its
location?

As things stand, I just say <p:exec . . . command="perl". . ./>, but
that won't work under your proposal.

ht
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