David Fox (dfox@hip-hop.suvl.ca.us) wrote:
: Andre Fuechsel (af1@irz.inf.tu-dresden.de) wrote:

: : Ok ok, 

: : One final question: Nobody was unhappy to destroy an important file under UNIX
: : because the is no version numbering like in VMS?? 

: Forcing version numbering on everything just leads to a waste of
: disk space, unless you always get rid of older versions of the
: files being worked on.

Version numbering can be set for individual files as well as directories in 
VMS. If you don't want multiple versions and don't want to keep purging your
files, set the version number limit to 1. If you don't want to do this
for every file, set the default version limit for your directories to 1.
How difficult can it be? Granted, most people don't know you can do this -
especially those who started out using Unix.  :-)

: Emacs can do some version numbering, and you can use RCS or SCCS for
: good document control in Unix.


: : Andre Fuechsel
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: David E. Fox                                   email: hip-hop!dfox@amdahl.com