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Re: /etc/athena/zephyr.desc

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Win Treese)
Sun Aug 21 18:29:46 1988

To: Mark W. Eichin <eichin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: Win Treese <treese@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>, zephyr-comments@ATHENA.MIT.EDU,
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 21 Aug 88 00:56:48 -0400.
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 88 18:28:55 EDT
From: Win Treese <treese@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>

> >Why is the file there?  That seems to be a very odd place for an example
> >file for users?
> >      - Win

> Though the file serves as an example, it is the file actually read by
> zwgc after reading the user's ~/.zephyr.desc file, and thus contains
> the default descriptions for most currently known types of messages.

> This looks like it was not made clear in the zwgc(1) man page.

> 						_Mark_

Even so, it seems that /usr/lib or /usr/athena/lib would be a more appropriate
location....

	- Win

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