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From: snicoud@ATC.BOEING.COM (Stephen Nicoud)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti.explorer
Subject: Re: Unix w/ Versions
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Date: 7 Jul 89 19:16:12 GMT
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   Date: Wed, 5 Jul 89 13:17:32 EDT
   From: Dan Cerys <cerys@bbn.com>
   Subject: Unix w/ Versions
   
   
   Does anyone have a patch that will allow me to use version numbers on files
   residing on a UNIX file server (using an Explorer as the FTP/NFS client).
   It shouldn't be to hard to do this the way GNU Emacs handles version
   numbers, but I'd rather not reinvent any wheels.  [GNU writes
   foo.lisp.newest as "foo.lisp" and foo.lisp.3 as "foo.lisp.~3~"]
   
   Dan

I agree that it would be very useful.  I'm not aware of an such patch
for the Explorer, though.  Symbolics/ILA's NFS system does give you this
capability.  It comes in very handy when developing a single-source
system that is to be run on Lisp Machines and UNIX boxes.