mahout git commit: Adding instructions for MAHOUT-1794 to the readme.

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Repository: mahout
Updated Branches:
  refs/heads/flink-binding 1c1abbf3d -> c00b96ecc


Adding instructions for MAHOUT-1794 to the readme.

Conflicts:
	examples/bin/README.txt


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Branch: refs/heads/flink-binding
Commit: c00b96ecc909fe6bcd4dce5e365a7fcea8a2bfdf
Parents: 1c1abbf
Author: Andrew Musselman <ak...@apache.org>
Authored: Sat Mar 19 14:46:48 2016 -0700
Committer: Andrew Musselman <ak...@apache.org>
Committed: Sat Mar 19 20:10:50 2016 -0700

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diff --git a/examples/bin/README.txt b/examples/bin/README.txt
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@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 This directory contains helpful shell scripts for working with some of Mahout's examples.  
 
+To set a non-default temporary work directory: `export MAHOUT_WORK_DIR=/path/in/hdfs/to/temp/dir`
+  Note that this requires the same path to be writable both on the local file system as well as on HDFS.
+
 Here's a description of what each does:
 
 classify-20newsgroups.sh -- Run SGD and Bayes classifiers over the classic 20 News Groups.  Downloads the data set automatically.
@@ -8,4 +11,4 @@ cluster-syntheticcontrol.sh -- Cluster the Synthetic Control data set.  Download
 factorize-movielens-1m.sh -- Run the Alternating Least Squares Recommender on the Grouplens data set (size 1M).
 factorize-netflix.sh -- (Deprecated due to lack of availability of the data set) Run the ALS Recommender on the Netflix data set.
 run-rf.sh -- Create some synthetic data, build a random forest, and test performance.
-spark-document-classifier.mscala -- A mahout-shell script which trains and tests a Naive Bayes model on the Wikipedia XML dump and defines simple methods to classify new text.
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+spark-document-classifier.mscala -- A mahout-shell script which trains and tests a Naive Bayes model on the Wikipedia XML dump and defines simple methods to classify new text.