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From: jgreely@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Browser auto-update
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Date: 14 Aug 89 08:35:51 GMT
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Should I mention that any attempt to add this to the system would
result in my deep-sixing it faster than you can say "Design
Philosophy"?

  I am not fundamentally opposed to having the Browser update itself
when I select it, as long as it doesn't prevent me from logging out
when it hangs on an NFS file system, but anything more is, IMHO,
crossing the line.  Absolute accuracy would involve deep ugly hacking,
and would give the kernel knowledge about the one true window system
(assuming it doesn't (*brrrr*) already).  Nasty, unfriendly thing to
do.

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J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)