Bob Jones wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RJT> I use -2a,  for whatever that's worth...   (And I 
 RJT> can't remember why,  either!)

 BJ> You had some 3rd party app that needed the max 2.0 version of the
 BJ> control files. 

Yeah.  I'm just not sure what it was any more,  since it's been that long...

 BJ> Since you stated later in the messages that you didn't use groups, 
 BJ> that's probably why you choose -2a instead of the -2u that I 
 BJ> used....

 RJT> I was just saying to Maurice,  elsewhere,  that I'd be happy with 
 RJT> 2.x functionality under linux.  The whole groups thing struck me 
 RJT> as cumbersome when I read about it,  and I've never done anything 
 RJT> with it,  in spite of being involved in some discussions that led 
 RJT> to its being implemented in the first place.

 BJ> Unfortunately for you, the GPL'ed maximus is the 3.x code.  And, 
 BJ> you don't have to use the group functionality (of Max 3.0) if you
 BJ> don't want to. 

I don't.  I've got that thing of my own implemented,  which uses a few of
the keys to do this.

 BJ> If you want to see an implementation of the group usage, check out 
 BJ> what I've done at 1:343/41 (or telnet://tophat.darktech.org ).  
 BJ> Yes, there are pluses and minuses of using this option....  I had 
 BJ> too many areas (both message and file) on line to not do something 
 BJ> to break them up....

As did I.  But I did it before 3.x came along.

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