Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 19:34:56 -0800 (PST)
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To: George Foot <george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk>
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: Portability docs
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
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At 09:58  3/12/1998 +0000, George Foot wrote:
>On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:
>
>> As far as I can tell, the only other thing that needs to be done before work
>> can start is the port-note continuation feature. It might be better if all
>> notes were not merged, since it might not make sense to merge notes about
>> (say) SysV and BSD. Are you still around, George?
>
>Just about; I've been rather busy over the past week or so. 

Take your time; I was just checking.

> I was going
>to wait for some agreement on what this feature should do before making a
>real implementation.  Before the disagreement came I had implemented a
>system for it which allowed several paragraphs in each note; IIRC it works
>like this:
[deleted]
>I still personally think this is reasonable; it allows longer notes to be
>written if necessary, and allows paragraph breaks in notes, without
>encouraging either in general.  I don't think we should over-restrict this
>system and then find out that it needs changing when we've already done
>half of the functions. 

I agree completely. Okay, everyone, last call for complaints... :)

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net