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Subject: Re: a quick note -- 1.94 beta 1 due out shortly.
From: Dave Wolfe <dwolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 14:14:01 -0500 (CDT)
To: tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu (Jason L Tibbitts III)
Cc: majordomo-workers @ GreatCircle . COM, cwilson @ slurp . neu . sgi . com
In-reply-to: <ufaenky7wq3.fsf@sina.hpc.uh.edu> from "Jason L Tibbitts III" at Aug 23, 96 01:59:32 pm
Reply-to: Dave Wolfe <david_wolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>

[ Jason L Tibbitts III writes: ]
> 
> >>>>> "DW" == Dave Wolfe <dwolfe@risc.sps.mot.com> writes:
> 
> DW> After the way I got shot down for proposing one little expansion of
> DW> regexps in Mj I'm surprised at the total lack of reaction to the
> DW> expansions and proposals for regexps in 1.94.
> 
> You'll have to provide more context here. If by "expansion" you mean
> "eval to expand embedded variables" then I can understand the problem,
> because that's a security hole. (And I'm sure you know that, so it
> must be something else.)

No, I proposed using regexps in more places in configuration or some
such and was roundly chastised because regexps were too complicated for
mere mortal Mj installers to understand.

-- 
 Dave Wolfe    *Not a spokesman for Motorola*
 Motorola MMTG  6501 Wm. Cannon Dr. W. OE112  Austin  TX  78735-8598


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