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From: jeremyr@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Tail patches
Message-ID: <1503@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk>
Date: 30 Nov 89 12:46:14 GMT
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Reply-To: jeremyr@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak)
Organization: Computer Science Dept, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK.
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In article <10385@cadnetix.COM> pem@cadnetix.COM (Paul Meyer) writes:
>I really can't let this go by...
> ... The fact is, this
>whole flamefest started with somebody asking what a tail patch is and
>whining that he "ought" to be able to do it.

I can't let this go by either.  I started this "flamefest" with a perfectly
reasonable request for information.  As I recall, it went,

1. What are tail patches?
2. If they are what I think they are, why are they bad?

I think that's a simple request with no element of whine present and
certainly no feeling that I "ought" to be able to do anything.

Jeremy Roussak