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From: dylan@cs.washington.edu (Dylan McNamee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Filling Archives Disk Space
Message-ID: <13139@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 26 Sep 90 19:47:18 GMT
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Reply-To: dylan@june.cs.washington.edu (Dylan McNamee)
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In article <90269.111207UH2@psuvm.psu.edu> UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer) writes:
>Would it be reasonable for a dictator to selectively prune the disk?  Ther
>are many cases of older, unneeded versions of software that are updated
>later, for example.  There are probably lots of early example of "How to
>X" which have been replaced by later, better examples.
>
>This would have to be a FishDisk maven who has been closely watching the
>contents since day one, of course.
I have been following the Fish collection since Day 1.  (I do remember
being amazed when I got the 30th disk, "How long can he go on?" I remember
asking myself...)

I would not ever dream of deleting any "outdated examples," even though
more current versions came around later.  I have _way_ more than once found
myself going back to a 2 digit fish disk for a reference on something
that probably was addressed later.  This is because often, if it works
now It Follows The Rules, and will work for A Long Time.

Not that I think that All fish files are sacred.  I would especially put
up for pruning the binary only shareware progs that had more recent
updates.  Crobots' older versions come to mind.  Of course, they could
be replaced by a blank file called "Crobots_is_on_ff297" or whatever...
Old versions of VT100, DME, Dmouse, etc. could also be similarly pruned.
I would say that unique programs should stay, faults and all.

This would have to be done judiciously, of course...
>
>lee

dylan
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