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Re: [Wonderful Winifred!] 8.2 Athena release

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed May 6 19:32:02 1998

Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 19:31:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>, Wonderful Winifred! <winifred@MIT.EDU>
Cc: source-developers@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[166] in Source_Developers"

> One possibility might be to shorten paths by having it check if
> /mit/lockername/bin points to the same place as the path it was
> going to add, and using the shorter form if it does. That may be
> enough to make us win...

We could also up the word size in tcsh, if it's not recorded in too
many different places.  Kind of evil, but the only real problem I can
think of with it is that it'd screw over users of sipb-tcsh.

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