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Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade?

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On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 6:07 AM, Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:

> On 2018-03-21, deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Richard Hector wrote:
> >
> >> Where 'checked' was presumably the debilitate one :-)
> >
> > true, sorry - even double checking fails sometime :D
> >
> >
>
> When Norman Mailer's Harlot's Ghost was published it contained a
> grammatical error in the first sentence (and one can only imagine how
> many human minds proof-read the thing before it went to press):
>
> Here it is:
>
>  "On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through the fog along
>  the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the
>  March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe
>  who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago."
>
> The error was subsequently corrected.
>
> So take heart.
>

a lot of the old grammatical categories have died out; the "dangling
modifier" error has gone the way of the "split infinitive".

f.


>
>
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> --
> Bah, the latest news, the latest news is not the last.
> Samuel Beckett
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how to view config file changes without running an upgrade? Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@aixigo.de> - 2018-03-21 09:20 +0100
  Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2018-03-21 12:50 +0100
    Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-03-21 13:30 +0100
      Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2018-03-21 14:30 +0100
    Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-03-21 14:50 +0100
      Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-03-21 15:20 +0100
        Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade? Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2018-03-21 16:40 +0100
          Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-03-21 22:00 +0100
            Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade? Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2018-03-21 22:40 +0100
              Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-03-21 22:50 +0100
                Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-03-22 11:20 +0100
                Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade? felmon davis <moelmoel2714@gmail.com> - 2018-03-27 09:00 +0200
                Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-03-27 09:30 +0200
            Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade? Jason <electron@emypeople.net> - 2018-03-22 03:30 +0100
    Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade? Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@aixigo.de> - 2018-03-21 16:50 +0100
      Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-03-21 17:20 +0100
        Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-03-21 22:00 +0100
        Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade? Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@aixigo.de> - 2018-03-22 11:20 +0100
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  Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-03-21 16:00 +0100
    Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-03-21 16:20 +0100
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