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ietf-nntp Thoughts on renaming X commands

Ben Polk <bpolk@netscape.com> Thu, 03 October 1996 19:15 UTC

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From: Ben Polk <bpolk@netscape.com>
Subject: ietf-nntp Thoughts on renaming X commands
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 12:11:26 -0700
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What do other people think about renaming XOVER->OVER in
the spec?  

I'd prefer to document it as XOVER.  There are millions of
installed programs that use this, and no technical reason I 
can see to change it.

Same for XPAT.

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