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To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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Subject: Re: disappearing ports 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 12 Dec 1997 09:52:40 PST."
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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 18:08:12 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> About the consequences of using the wrong tag, all I can say is that
> I long ago put warnings every place I could think of -- the example
> cvsupfiles, the handbook, the cvsup manual page.  I also implemented
> a safety limit on the number of files that can get deleted.  (See
> cvsup(1)).  I don't know what else I could do, short of putting some

<USUAL-GUILT-ITEM>
"If there were a nifty front end to cvsup file configuration, this
kind of thing wouldn't happen at all."
</USUAL-GUILT-ITEM>

:-)

					Jordan