[m-dev.] for review: generate index files on web site

[Fergus Henderson]

On 26-Jun-2000, David Glen JEFFERY <dgj at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> +++ test_mercury	2000/06/26 08:25:09
> @@ -110,6 +110,7 @@
>  BETA_FTPHOST=ftp.mercury.cs.mu.oz.au
>  BETA_FTPDIR=/home/ftp/pub/mercury/beta-releases
>  BETA_WEBDIR=/home/mercury5/installed_w3/download/files/beta-releases
> +BETA_WEBDIR_TOP=/home/mercury5/installed_w3/download/files/

Why the trailing slash?

> +# Now rebuild the index files on the www site
> +(
> +export PATH=`pwd`:$PATH

That is a bash-ism.  For portability you should write that as

	PATH=`pwd`:$PATH
	export PATH

Also to avoid problems when PATH contains special characters, you should
use quotes:

	PATH="`pwd`:$PATH"

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