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Date:         Mon, 8 Nov 93 18:45:58 EDT
From: Emilio Lopes <CENDFI65%BRUFPB.bitnet@vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de>
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Subject:      Re: the name NFSS
Status: R


On Mon, 8 Nov 93 15:37:10 CET you said:
>
>the above could be satisfied if a different SUFFIX was chosen instead, that
>is, e.g., article.s2e (or whatever else) for styles for latex2e, instead of
>article.sty for old latex. this could be hidden from the user, as far as they
>do not normaly input file extensions, yet this would still answer michel's
>call for keeping style files for various packages distinct. one would still
>have full 8 characters for mnemonic names even within ibm-infected systems,
                                                        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
                        You cant imagine how bad VM/CMS is!
>without resorting to cryptic encodings.

This idea sounds fine to me. At this way no one has to change the
\documentstyle of "old" documents!
>
>--jiri zlatuska
>
>
Ciao.

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 Emilio C. Lopes                      cendfi65@brufpb.bitnet
 Physics Lab - UFPB -- BRAZIL         cendfi65%brufpb@lion.cce.usp.br