Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/05/12:06:22
On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, Colin W. Glenn wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, Roger Ivie wrote:
> > Colin W. Glenn wrote:
> > >On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, Mark Habersack wrote:
> > >I know something about it, had a temp account at UNO with their VAX, it
> > >was a nightmare trying to keep my filespace straight, much less convincing
> > >the animal to download to my system, much less uploading!
> >
> > Now, now, there's nothing wrong with the VMS file system as long as you don't
> > foolishly believe a file should be a stream of bytes...
>
> Or believe that a file of the same name will overwrite!
$ SET DIRECTORY []/VERSION_LIMIT=1
or if you want them all that way (for some reason):
$ SET DIRECTORY [],[...]*.DIR/VERSION_LIMIT=1
As I recall, the setting is propagated to new inferior directories.
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer MWOOD AT INDYVAX DOT IUPUI DOT EDU
Those who will not learn from history are doomed to reimplement it.
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