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Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 17:08:25 +0200
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>>ROTFL.  Good idea, I don't thingk that this has been thought of before
>>now.  I'm laughing because it seems pretty obvious!
> 
> I assume that Rob is kidding since this has been (like most new ideas
> here) suggested many times in the past.  The impetus for automode.o came
> from a suggestion that we add such functionality to mount.
> 
> It is not impossible to do.  I actually planned on doing it... someday.

OK - but what do you mean with "impossible". i don't see any reason, why 
while we have 2 mode already - we could not have 3 modes!?

one could also think of keeping 2 modes, and setting an option what the 
text-mode should be like: mixed or normal.


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