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<BODY><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>It also has the potential to make
the application bloated, slow, and/or difficult understand and administer
... unless it is very modular, compartmentalized, and
documented.</FONT><BR>
<P><FONT size=2><FONT color=#ff0000>Putting functionality like this in the
application guarantees that it<BR>is available to all operating systems that can
run the application.<BR><BR>Jack.<BR>(Xastir runs on FreeBSD and Solaris as well
as Linux.)<BR></FONT><BR><BR></FONT></P></BODY></HTML>