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Date: 13 Mar 1997 03:03:19 +0100
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Chuck Thompson <cthomp@xemacs.org> writes:

> Oh I fully agree that it is a big architectural advantage (one which
> I actually discussed over the phone with RMS once; he didn't see any
> point to it).

I wonder how does he envision providing the equivalence of our
`gnuattach', or clean support for non-X environments, or all the other
stuff that devices can bring?

> My amazement comes from the perspective of seeing it go from being a
> pipe dream to reality and having a first hand knowledge of just how
> much code had to be written and/or modified to make it work.

Ah, now I see.

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