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Re: Mail client transition plan

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Tue Sep 18 10:23:18 2001

Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:23:15 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200109181423.KAA23296@multics.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
CC: release-team@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[2941] in Release_7.7_team"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>

| New users should, of course, not get this question, which probably
| means that new accounts will need to be created with a flag dotfile
| (.athena-evo-noask, or something) as if they had chosen the third menu
| option already.

Disliking this as I do, I put forth the suggestion to use an
environment variable in .cshrc, perhaps a generic one, like "setenv
DOT_CSHRC_VERSION 1.15", or a specific one, like "setenv
ATHENA_EVA_NOASK 1".

Just a thought.

--jhawk

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