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From: dpz@aramis.rutgers.edu (David P. Zimmerman)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: Chris Torek's control-T package
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Date: Sat, 30-May-87 23:17:25 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 30 23:17:25 1987
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Paul,

For a background, we have had the ^T code installed here for ages now,
along with zillions of other hacks, additions, and bug fixes to 4.2,
local and foreign.  You seem to put a high importance on purity of the
code and need of additions being officiated by UCB, but I don't see
the necessity of this.  "Official" and "serialized" don't always mean
that they will install correctly.  That only comes from professional
work.  "Serialized" just keeps them indexed, and "official" means
nothing.

Why would you have to back out of an external patch when you have to
install a UCB correction to the same region?  Just look at the code
for each and figure out what the correct thing is.  Yes, it might
generate some conflict, but if you keep .ORIG files and a changes
history around, that situation is, from experience, fixable without
too much trouble.

						dpz
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David P. Zimmerman           rutgers!dpz           dpz@rutgers.edu