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echo: muffin
to: Bob Jones
from: Michael Grant
date: 2003-10-18 10:46:22
subject: Maximus message editing

Hello Bob.

17 Oct 03 22:55, you wrote to Mike Tripp:

 BS>> Yes it looks hardcoded, gotta find the place where it's.. Anyway I
 BS>> wouldn't matter mutch as long as you have symlinks in Linux ;-)

 MT>> I would consider it a "design decision" and not dink
 MT>> with it.  That warning's been in the docs since 2.0x.
 MT>> The Linux port might not operate correctly with
 MT>> existing CTLs which have both according to "Scott's
 MT>> rules" if you ignore the case sensitivity where it
 MT>> already exists.

 BJ> With Wes's decision to put a number of configuration files in
 BJ> /var/max/etc instead of /var/max (by default), there are already a number
 BJ> of items that don't work exactly like the DOS, OS/2 and Win32 version.

This is the sort of thing I mean when I say that some of us worry about
this becoming a Linux-only project. When a developer unnecessarily changes
the code to Unix-specific settings like this, it causes problems for those
who want to port it back to other OS's.


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