Open Problems

Joachim Schrod TWG-TDS@SHSU.edu
Wed, 20 Sep 1995 13:58:53 +0200 (MESZ)


You wrote:
> 
> Joachim wrote: 
> 
> >> PS: More and more I come to the point that the discussion of `there
> >> are no unique macro file names' should be part of the rationale.
> 
> Joy, joy: now if only the discussion had _started_ from that
> perspective, the outcome might have been very different.  ** Phil.

For the record: I mentioned the point that one needs different macro
file search paths for different formats very early. (Partly, because
I use them since years in my installation setups, utilizing shell
scripts.) The reason above was implied. I don't think that
explicating the reason would have changed the outcome -- no
experience exists for more radical approaches, and developers won't
support them anyhow.

	Joachim

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Joachim Schrod			Email: schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
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Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany