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Re: environment option draft

"David A. Borman" <dab@berserkly.cray.com> Mon, 11 October 1993 17:53 UTC

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From: "David A. Borman" <dab@berserkly.cray.com>
Message-Id: <9310111754.AA02937@frenzy.cray.com>
To: sjogren@tgv.com, stevea@lachman.com
Subject: Re: environment option draft
Cc: klensin@infoods.mit.edu, telnet-ietf@cray.com

> sjogren@TGV.COM (Sam Sjogren) writes:
> >Any problem with just including [the interoperability document] in the 
> >environment option RFC?
> 
> No, no problem.  It's just that I believe that it is our intent that these hacks
> die off in time.  Therefore, I would prefer not to clutter the main spec with an
> annoying diversion.

I agree with Steve.  The interoperability document only refers to
the original option number, implementations of the new option number
do not need to worry about the reversed var/value definition problem
(which is the whole point of getting a new option number).

			-David Borman, dab@cray.com

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