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Add a <note> about the shells that require a `rehash' command to look

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for new executables in PATH, after a new port has been installed.

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Submitted by:	Chris Pepper <pepper@rockefeller.edu>
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@ -796,6 +796,20 @@ R-deps: </screen>
<command>make install</command> as two separate steps.</para>
</note>
<note>
<para>Some shells keep a cache of the commands that are available in
the directories listed in the <envar>PATH</envar> environment
variable, to speed up lookup operations for the executable file of
these commands. If you are using one of these shells, you might
have to use the <command>rehash</command> command after installing
a port, before the newly installed commands can be used. This is
true for both shells that are part of the base-system (such as
<command>tcsh</command>) and shells that are available as ports
(for instance,
<filename role="package">shells/bash</filename> and
<filename role="package">shells/zsh</filename>).</para>
</note>
<note>
<para>Please be aware that the licenses of a few ports do not
allow for inclusion on the CDROM. This could be because a