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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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Subject: Re: errros on making floppies 
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Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 04:51:12 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> That doesn't mean we should immediately ``recycle'' the name ``root
> floppy'' for something totally different.  This would cause nothing
> but major confusion to many users.  If we ship 2.2 without a root.flp,
> we need a `quarantine' period so we can use this name for something
> different as early as 2.3 again.

I should have said "delete" rather than rename.  We can race straight
for a bindist now if it's done with care, nothing I need off the root
floppy to suck a distribution down.

					Jordan