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From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>
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Subject: Re: startslip isn't just broken - it's EVIL!
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[ startslip bugs and other non-intuitiveness ]
 
> >Guys!  Use slattach and chat, and save yourselves the stress 8)
> 
> It is taste question. When I got my slip, I was trying to use
> slattach first, but switched to startslip, slattach works unstable for me.
> Startslip is better structured and not do anything in signal handlers.

Again, it's a taste question.  I'm just finishing up my very simple
slattach addtions and will send it to Jordan for his perusal.
Unfortunately, the new sysconfig setup has made it a bit more difficult
to edit 'one file' as I could do in 2.0, but it is still a piece of cake
to make slattach and chat work with very little work.  


Nate