Re: flexfax: Announcement: RPMs for hylafax and libgr

[Nico Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Super-User wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Oct 1997 Matthew.Rice@ftlsol.com wrote:
> > 2) Is there any reason that we cannot rename the xferstat/xferlog for
> >    the next release?
> 
> yes, it makes more work for everyone to keep track of everything, and
> provides no benefit.
> why did microsoft change index.htm[l] to default.htm?
> in microsoft internet mail, why do you separate multiple recipients with
> semicolons instead of commas?

Because Microsnot likes to break compatibility, forcing people to their
products.

> stupid little changes like this just suck.  there are loads of other
> little changes like this in various software that are too numerous to
> count.
> many commands between solaris 1.x and 2.x are different, but that's
> understandable because it's a different product entirely..
> 
> my 2 cents - dont change something unless there's a benefit.

In this case, there is a specific benefit: xferstats in the Linux
package is already present in the wu-ftpd binaries, and they will
overwrite each other in /usr/sbin in configurations done consistently
with RedHat's model of where such things go. It doesn't traumatically
affect other OS's: it makes sense.

There have been similar suggestions in the past: renaming the received
faxes to "filename.fax" instead of "filename.tif" to ease Web service
of received documents, for example. I don't think that one took
off, but I modified faxrcvd appropriately on *my* installation.

			Nico Garcia
			Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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