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Re: sun4x_58 netscape loses

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon May 21 11:28:51 2001

Message-Id: <200105211528.LAA32007@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 May 2001 11:20:30 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:28:42 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>

> I was under the impression that software in the release was supposed
> to work absent ATHENA_SYS_COMPAT. If not, then this isn't a bug and
> I'm confused. If so, then it's a minor bug.

Your impression is correct (or at least reasonable), but netscape
isn't in the release.  The nightly copy from the locker to local disk
is a performance hack, not a transfer of maintenance status.

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