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Date:      Tue, 23 Jun 1998 10:33:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com>
To:        Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org>, hm@kts.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PCVT's death
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.980623103204.388A-100000@echonyc.com>
In-Reply-To: <199806222117.XAA00375@sos.freebsd.dk>

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On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Søren Schmidt wrote:

> In reply to Tim Vanderhoek who wrote:

> > #2) No one has _seriously_ suggested removing PCVT so long as it
> > works and fulfills a unique purpose, at least not in this thread
> > (which I have read in its entirety).
> 
> Exactly, I dont know where all this hysteria came from...

It came from confusion between "dead" as in "dead in the water" and
"dead" as in "ready to be carted off and buried".

You apparently meant the former, and some people thought you meant the
latter.  No mystery here.

> I said that pcvt is dying because of lack of development and because the
> author has abandoned it. Those points still holds IMO. End of discussion.



 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems." 


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