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To:	Bengt Kleberg <bengtk@damek.kth.se>
Cc:	rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: autoconfig 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Apr 1997 04:38:59 EST."
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Date:	Wed, 2 Apr 1997 19:15:27 -0500
From:	Scott Merrilees <Sm@nc.bhpese.oz.au>

> Posix feels more "professional" than autoconfig. Perhaps I'm just very vain.

Professional is not necessarily functional, and can sometimes be
equivalent to getting half the functionality at twice the price, and
four times the frustration and aggravation.

Posix isn't ubiquitous by any stretch of the imagination, and there
will be legacy systems where people want to run rc for a long time to
come.  I've been making UNIX code work for over 10 years, and I'd
rather see autoconf.

Sm