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To: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: Thoughts on the install and on Red Hat Linux. 
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Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 16:37:28 -0800
From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Gosh, we are moving forward 8)

BTW: exmh has a cool installation procedure someone can take a look. 
Yes, I know that it is probably not a one to one match to an OS installation
however the overall general procedure is cool.

	Amancio

>>> Julian Elischer said:
 > > 
 > > Hmm.  Two days ago you were saying "it can't be done!" (or for the
 > > australians here, "we'll all be rooned!"), wrt. leap to X.  Has this
 > > changed your mind?  (I'm being optomistic here 8)
 > ok Hanrahan, don't get too excited..
 > > 
 > > > Can we re-open the traditional (heh heh) dialog on this topic?
 > there was movement at the station for the word had got around.....
 > > 
 > > 
 > > > 2. I think we need to sit down and devise a list of tcl commands,
 > I think that an install disk with a single executable 
 > linked with tclX, should be able to do all the installation :)
 > 
 > have builtin tcl scripts for all the usual commands..
 > (add tk when a server is found :)
 > 
 > 
 > > >    in their own little library and name space, for doing all the sorts
 > > >    of things that one might want to do to files on the system in the
 > > >    process of "installing packages."  Maybe we'll find that existing
 > > >    TCL or TCLX primitives require just a few more additions to make
 > > >    for a completely robust package building environment, I dunno.
 > > >    We'll just have to look and see.
 > > 
 > > Ok, I'm sold on TCL.  I know it's not perfect, but it's a _common_ languag
     e,
 > > so the available programmer-base is much larger.  Can we win the war to ge
     t
 > > tcl into the base distribution? 8)  This "devision" should go well with
 > > John's recent post wrt. the 16-step plan to a tighter installation.
 > 
 > > 
 >