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From: sakkinen@tukki.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
Newsgroups: comp.std.misc
Subject: Re: 14 character file names AGAIN
Message-ID: <1990Aug20.072553.27562@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: 20 Aug 90 07:25:53 GMT
References: <9008021106.AA11008@solsta.ericsson.se> <1990Aug18.010030.8538@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <76B5SDD@ggpc2.ferranti.com>
Reply-To: sakkinen@jytko.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
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In article <76B5SDD@ggpc2.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
> ...
>I can imagine how you'd feel if POSIX specified, oh, file version numbers. A
>lot of people consider that a file system that doesn't provide version numbers
>for files is irretreivably brain dead. [...]
> ...

Right on the nail!
I have been working in UNIX environments for 5 years now,
and still keep yearning for versions,
like VAX/VMS and even RSX-11M had (and have) them.

Markku Sakkinen
Department of Computer Science
University of Jyvaskyla (a's with umlauts)
Seminaarinkatu 15
SF-40100 Jyvaskyla (umlauts again)
Finland
          SAKKINEN@FINJYU.bitnet (alternative network address)