Re: Preventing the creation of backup files when using :if-exists :new-version

Pascal Bourguignon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.cmucl.general
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"Denis Papathanasiou" <[email protected]> writes:

> I've noticed that CMUCL (I'm running it on debian) creates backup
> files (i.e., tilde suffix copies, similar to the Emacs default
> behavior when saving a file) when I write to a file output stream with
> the :if-exists :new-version parameters.
>
> Is there a way to turn this off?


Yes, if you don't want NEW VERSIONS, don't use :NEW-VERSION !


Use  :IF-EXISTS :SUPERSEDE instead!


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