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Re: undead zwgcs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark W. Eichin)
Mon Sep 28 10:03:13 1998

To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com>, griffon@snurgle.org, zephyr@MIT.EDU
From: eichin@MIT.EDU (Mark W. Eichin)
Date: 28 Sep 1998 09:47:25 -0400
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of "Tue, 22 Sep 1998 14:09:05 EDT"


> that there has to be backward compatibility for people with existing
> .zwgc.desc files, so if any language is going to replace the zwgc

Why? There wasn't in the last transition (granted, a smaller set...)
There are a couple of ways to do it in the athena environment, but
"obsoleting" the description language isn't really that hard (how long
has it been since ozwgc was even included in a release?)

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