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Re: dash menus

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Barker)
Wed Sep 25 16:30:59 1996

To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Sep 1996 11:30:45 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 16:30:31 EDT
From: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>


- I'd like to simplify matters by just referencing the menus as:

-	/afs/athena.mit.edu/system/config/dash/Dash.menus

-The Dash menus already have a way of selecting which platforms
-specific items run on, so selecting by platform seems unnecessary.
-Selecting by version seems to have only minor practical value, given
-that we didn't use it in the last major release.

sounds like a rational and sensible simplification to me.  if there
ever is a version dependency, we could point Dash.menus at the current
one.

Unless someone comes up with an objection by five days from now (Monday?)
do it.

Mike

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