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Subject:Re: 'might' vs. 'may' From:Aahz <aahz -at- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 17 Oct 1994 20:01:26 GMT
In article <9410171453 -dot- AA24727 -at- cnseq1 -dot- ca -dot- oracle -dot- com>,
Gwen Gall <ggall -at- ca -dot- oracle -dot- com> wrote:
>>> If the board IDs are not consecutive, the bootstrap loader might not
>>> detect some of the boards.
>>>
>>> If the board IDs are not consecutive, the bootstrap loader may not
>>> detect some of the boards.
>I have a problem with 'may', because of the "permission" problem. What's
>wrong with the following?:
> If the board IDs are not consecutive, the bootstrap loader can fail to
> detect all of the boards.
That might ;-) work. It doesn't quite convey the right tone, but
neither does anything else mentioned so far....
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