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To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
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Subject: Re: Ports status / category quandry 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Jan 1997 20:01:10 EST."
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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 19:10:41 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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>   1) I haven't been following the freeze announcements, what is
>      the latest scoop on adding new ports?

Before Satoshi went off to his retreat, he said it was lifted
indefinitely.

>   2) This port really wants to be in a "text processing"
>      category.  In fact, in the misc category, it has a few other lost
>      friends like glimpse, ispell, mgdiff, recode, rman, and trans.
>      Opinions on a "Text" category?

I think it's a good idea - some things now in "print" should also
probably move over to it.  I should have had a text category from the
beginning, but missed it.

					Jordan