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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: VMS vs. UNIX s/w development tools - query
Message-ID: <3670@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 4 Apr 89 12:51:05 GMT
References: <4401@enea.se>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <4401@enea.se>, sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>   VMS may be violating some theoretical principal, but it gives
> you safety.

In practice it gives you overflowing disks. I've used VMS, and I've found
that if you don't have lots of money to spend on extra disk drives you're
always PURGEing stuff.

What's wrong with just making the editor keep a .bak file? Or do you REALLY
want to keep all those old .EXE and .OBJ files?
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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