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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, fenner@parc.xerox.com
Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure
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>>1. Don't use `dangerously dedicated' unless you know what you're doing.
>
>Isn't the geometry likely to cause *more* grief in "normal" mode?

Perhaps if there were fewer bugs in DD mode.  Bugs in "normal" mode
are usually fatal so they got fixed years ago.

Bruce