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From: tower@AI.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
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Subject: src directory is getting too large
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Date: 16 Jan 91 22:02:54 GMT
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   Date: 16 Jan 91 09:41:24 GMT
   From: mcsun!unido!sapwdf!wohler@uunet.uu.net  (Bill Wohler)
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   aks@HUB.UCSB.EDU (Alan Stebbens) writes:
   >It would be a nice idea if the emacs distribution had a "conf"
   >subdirectory, to contain the config files.

     i suggested this about four years ago as well.  perhaps we'll see a
     subdirectory in version 19 if there is enough support for such an
     action and someone actually does it.  in the meantime, moving the m- and s-
     files is always the first thing i do with a new distribution.

     my vote is for the name "sys".

						   --bw

GNU is already using config as the name for this directory in gcc,
gdb, g++ et al, so it will be what's used for GNU Emacs when the time
comes.  Thanx though for the suggestion.

-len