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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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In-Reply-To: <19990829054315.82BEE1C99@overcee.netplex.com.au> from Peter Wemm at "Aug 29, 1999 01:43:15 pm"
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> 
> It's been discused on and off since 1995 when the first aborted attempt was
> made.  And jkh later had another go, but that was backed out since it was a
> bit premature as a lot of the tools didn't support it properly.

Actually, I think it goes back to May 8, 1994 when I first contacted
David Dawes at XFree86 to ask how they did the $XFree86$ keyword.

The first aborted attempt would have occured in the FreeBSD 1.x repository.

-- 
Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25)                    rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net


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