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Re: apex-1.4.5



On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 07:30:27AM +0930, Rod Whitby wrote:
> Marc Singer wrote:
> > Note that APEX doesn't care about the order of the skips.  It sorts
> > them by offset.
> 
> Also, having slugimage sort them in order before writing them out, and
> apex sorting them before using them, can be our own small tribute to Jon
> Postel (see the Robustness Principle from RFC793, or
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel):
> 
> "be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others"

Boy, do I ever live by that credo.  I can almost claim that I've been
doing so longer than the RFC, but that might be a stretch.



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