Re: Internal Filename Representations (was Re: Summary of I/O related RFCs)

[email protected] (Nathan Wiger) Sat, 12 Aug 2000 20:36:22 -0700
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.io
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> 
> The VMS (and TOPS20) advocates will scream here. Versions are part of
> the file name. The default is the latest version. But the filesystem
> automatically versions files.
> 
> Hmm, if we support versioning files, will perl have to support emacs
> versioned files? /foo/bar/bash.c.~356~

I would argue they should write File::Versioning or File::VMS or
File::Emacs to deal with type of thing.

Is there really that much VMS Perl out there? :-)

-Nate