Re: [mv] PATCH - MV4.04a: Changing "salestax.asc"

[Mike Heins <mikeh@minivend.com>]

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Quoting Jeff Carnahan (jcarnahan@networq.com):
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
> > [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Mike Heins
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 7:45 AM
> >
> > The "Special" directive is actually derived from SpecialPage after
> > config is run in lib/Vend/Config.pm. Can you describe the problem
> > that you had?
> >
> 
> The problem started in the documentation.. The docs indicated that the
> "Special" directive was to be used to change this, however there is no
> "Special" directive.. SpecialPage should currently be used, because
> "Special" does inherit all it's settings from the "SpecialPage" settings.
> 
> Because the documentation stated that "Special" should be used, I assume
> that the idea was to separate the two directives, one to be used to
> redefining databases, the other (SpecialPage) to redefine various error
> pages.
> 
> The posted three patches enforce this distinction, and my documentation
> describes the distinction between the two directives, once the patch has
> been applied.
> 
> Of course, this could probably be fixed by changing references in the docs
> to the "Special" directive to the "SpecialPage" directive,

This is correct.

> or perhaps
> changing all references to $Cfg->{Special} to $Cfg->{SpecialPage} in the
> source (actually a combination of both)...
> 

No! There are reasons whey I did this.  If I could have removed the
Special during the Minivend 4 change, I would have.

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