Re: A thought for readme

[glen e. p. ropella]

At 11:54 PM 4/30/98 -0600, you wrote:
>To the leaders at SFI,

Ack!  There is no leader!  [grin]  Perhaps we could "scaffold" for the
recognition of a sub-component whose behavior is leader-like; but, 
that component would most likely fail to adhere to the standard "leader"
protocol.

[Sorry, I couldn't help myself.]

>I would like to suggest that you include a couple more lines in your readme
>file that is inclosed with swarm.  Instead of just giving the line on how
>to compile, you could include the steps listed in Doug Donalson's email on
>4/29/98.  I would add a step 7 that would read--  To run the executable
>from the bash shell type: ./<executable name>.

Agreed that the readme should probably contain more explicit
instructions.  Your #7, however, isn't necessary.  "./" should be put
into the PATH environment variable, in light of Mark's comments on
security in Windows.

glen
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