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

At 10:24 PM 8/12/00 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> >>>>> "NW" == Nathan Wiger <[email protected]> writes:
>
>
>NW> just deal with filenames universally this would be a big win (leave
>NW> acls, permissions, versions, etc to something else).
>
>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~

"have to" is awfully strong, but it's a reasonable thing to do. Whether 
it's too specialized to be worth it's a separate issue, of course.

					Dan

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