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Re: linux: more xalf woes?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jun 25 10:14:00 2001
Message-Id: <200106251413.KAA06115@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>,
testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 25 Jun 2001 10:12:12 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 10:13:55 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> ...so I'm inclined to use xalf -n instead to avoid confusing users
> who try the Run option, unless there's some other failure mode to
> worry about.
Only that "xalf -n" only works through a bizarre and fragile
combination of events which might not hold true in future releases.
(You're effectively running "xalf xalf -n gathrun xess".)
How exactly would users get confused trying the Run option? They
would be pulling up the properties on the menu item and copying the
command into the Run dialog?
