Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 18:06:56 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> But in the non-LFN case, it's still the scheme above, isn't it?

Almost (good ideas--yours--never need to be rethought or replaced ;-).
The change is that the latest port supports numbered backups (if the
user thus requested) even on 8+3 filesystems.  For example:

	foo.c 		-> foo.c1~
	foo.cc		-> foo.c2~ (because foo.c1~ already exists above!)

Note: I didn't release this port yet (it's Patch 2.5.3), but I will do it 
soon, after I retrofit the changes into patch 2.5.4.  Since Patch didn't 
see an official release for for the last 2 1/2 years, it seems justified 
to release a beta, as it has several important improvements.