diff --git a/src/gnome/RegWindow.c b/src/gnome/RegWindow.c
index 8daa0aa0ab..6051f9a1d5 100644
--- a/src/gnome/RegWindow.c
+++ b/src/gnome/RegWindow.c
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@
  *           Huntington Beach, CA 92648-4632                        *
 \********************************************************************/
 
+/* hack alert -- much of the code in here should be chopped
+ * it is moving to the device-independent MultiLedger.c file 
+ */
+
 #define _GNU_SOURCE
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <string.h>