On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 16:00:43 -0500, zMan wrote:

>I am thinking that a non-native speaker writing this was perhaps.
>
 (Yodaspeak?)
Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markedness#Marked_and_unmarked_word_pairs
???  "first" is unmarked; "last" marked?

>On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 3:13 PM Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>
>> From Program Management UG and Ref:
>>
>>     A SYMPATH specification applies to all SYMLINK specifications that 
>> precede it,
>>     back to the first previous SYMPATH.
>>
>> The word "previous" seems superfluous here.  I wonder whether it means
>> "very first SYMPATH" or "nearest previous SYMPATH?"

-- gil

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