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From: Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: httpd as part of the system.
To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1995 03:03:01 +0000 (GMT)
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In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who said
> 
> > Why do we need to add a server? You don't need a server to read the docs,
> 
> Ask the docs folks.  Apparently, you can get a local server to do document
> translation for you if it's running.
> 

Umm, a local client can read local files, no need for a server at all. Some
servers do some specific server related things, NCSA does this but we
shouldn't rely on this yet since it's server dependent.

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