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<h3 class="section">8.4 Backward Compatibility</h3>

<p>For backward compatibility as well as to provide a practical backdoor for hackers,
ASDF will first search for <samp>.asd</samp> files in the directories specified in
<code>asdf:*central-registry*</code>
before it searches in the source registry above.
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<p>See <a href="Configuring-ASDF.html#Configuring-ASDF">Configuring ASDF to find your systems &mdash; old style</a>.
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<p>By default, <code>asdf:*central-registry*</code> will be empty.
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<p>This old mechanism will therefore not affect you if you don&rsquo;t use it,
but will take precedence over the new mechanism if you do use it.
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