Re: More Sun Ultra/Solaris 7 problems -- added

[Gregory W Cook <gcook@ecn.purdue.edu>]

> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Gregory W Cook wrote:
> >I forgot this one: this is a compiler error, not just a makefile error:
> >
> >% make mplug
> 
> mplug is not guaranteed to work at all in our 5.1.2 release.
> 
> I'll take a look at it for our next release, but it's future is up in
> the air.  I personally am not that familiar with it.  However, others
> around here consider mplug to be a rather questionable and flaky
> implementation.
> 
> Lloyd

Awk!  Really?  I've been using it to view MIGS for about a year and a half,
and it has been no "flakier" :-) than the other parts of the code.

Is mplug really not going to be supported?  I always thought from a 
form (not function) point of view it gave some legitimacy to the code.  People
tend to think good things when their browser can do something, as opposed to
a standalone program which doesn't require the sophistication of "playing
nice".  I personally have to vote to keep mplug, if for nothing else but
the "cuteness" factor.

Greg