On Mon, 5 Feb 1996 21:04:51 -0500 (EST) 
 Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@isds.Duke.EDU> wrote:

 > 
 > Since we're moving to the /emul setup that other ports use, I was
 > wondering how its path searching works.  Is there a description
 > someplace of exactly how path searching changes when /emul/ultrix is
 > populated?  Is there any way to force the system to search the
 > /emul/ultrix tree first for everything?  I'd assumed that running
 > commands wrapped in /emul/ultrix/bin/sh would force the system to
 > search /emul/ultrix first for commands, but this doesn't seem to be
 > true.  What I'm really after is how to avoid hacking at every single
 > shell script I've got (like the ones that launch mathematica, for
 > example) that has paths hardcoded into it...

When running an Ultrix executable, /emul/ultrix will be checked first for 
everything.  (depending on how many syscalls it's used in, that is...)

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