Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:08:39 +0300 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: linux-2.5.4-pre1 - bitkeeper testing |
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Steven Cole wrote:
> >Quoting from "VMS General User's Manual", section 2.1.1 Filenames, Types, >and Versions, "You can control the number of versions of a file by specifying >the /VERSION_LIMIT qualifier to the DCL commands CREATE/DIRECTORY, SET DIRECTORY, >and SET FILE." > >It has been a while (about 12 years), but IIRC, you could set /VERSION_LIMIT=1 and >effectively get rid of the annoying versions. But some people, the Aunt Tillie >types, were always tripping over their shoelaces and unintentially deleting files. >For those people, the version feature probably seemed a blessing rather than a >curse. > >Steven > > So with every command to create a directory you had to add an extra parameter specifying that you didn't want extra versions or else you got them?
Hans
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