Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!csc!ccadfa!usage!metro!otc!attila!robi From: robi@attila.esa.oz (RoBeRt KaRp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: bug in rbak/wbak Message-ID: <498@attila.esa.oz> Date: 20 Mar 90 22:42:26 GMT References: Reply-To: robi@attila.esa.oz.au (RoBeRt KaRp) Organization: Expert Solutions Australia Lines: 25 In hanche@imf.unit.no's article they write: : The story about ./tex being (partially) restored as .tex just serves : to strengthen my impression that wbak doesn't understand what "." is. : Indeed, if you try : : wbak -dev ct -f 1 -l . : : then wbak will happily report that it is starting the write, then just : as happily exit without having written anything (except an empty : backup file, that is). I will add this story to my growing collection : of Apollo jokes :-) : This was a problem with 10.1 I haven't tried it with 10.2 yet. Furthermore, the problem with vi macros appears to have disappeared with 10.2. - Robi -- INTERNET: robi@attila.esa.oz.au ACSnet: robi@attila.esa.oz Fax : (+61) (2) 953 9531 Robert Karp/// Tel : (+61) (2) 953 9488 //// UUCP : uunet!attila.esa.oz.au!robi \XXX/