In message <200412072119.10665.abuse@spamalicious.com>,
"Charles M. Hannum" writes:
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>On Tuesday 07 December 2004 19:20, Jonathan Stone wrote:
>> Are you sure? Robert, maybe I'm wrong, but I seem to recall a time
>> when new-config supported just needs-count, not needs-flag; [...]
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>You remember wrongly.

Actually, I think I just said it wrong. Wasn't there a time when
values for NLOOP > 1 didn't work at all, as oposed to the ``mostly-works''
we had until it became a cloner ?  (There _was_ no needs-flag/needs-count distinction then, iirc...)