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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: nobackup(1) arrives
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Date: Mon, 10-Sep-84 20:31:41 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 10 20:31:41 1984
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Added a small flourish to the backup system, a better solution to an
occasional need:  turning off the backup warnings on a day when backups
have been cancelled.  The warnings are now sent by a shell file which
looks for a flag file first.  If the flag file is there, the program
exits (removing the flag file first if this was to be the last warning
of the day).  Nobackup(1) creates the flag file, thus cancelling the
backup warnings for the next day when backups would normally be done.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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