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Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 18:09:50 -0700
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
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> - The change to MAX_ORDER is unneeded

It's not only unneeded, it's detrimental. Not only will we spend more
time merging stuff up and down to no effect, it also makes the 
config_nonlinear stuff harder (or we have to #ifdef it, which just causes
more unnecessary differentiation). Please don't do that little bit ....

M.


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