Subject: Re: Logical pathname hosts.
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 1998/12/23
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3123422253819229@naggum.no>

* robert_m_miles@yahoo.com
| Note the missing '.3' from the end of the string ACL5 returned.

  what do you suppose you'd do with it?  ACL 5.0 doesn't support file
  versions.  I think it'd be super neat if we could get rid of the
  braindamaged file systems semantics in Unix and set course for _real_
  file versions, the ability to make a file visible only after it had been
  closed, and the ability to abort a file creation and restore what was
  before the file was attempted.  however, as long as Unix doesn't do this,
  it would be a lot of work to support it.  I think it's worth it, so maybe
  I'll do it.

| Now what would be the _standard_defined_ way ...

  please note that a conforming implementation is allowed _not_ to support
  file versions.  I think you confuse your wish list with the standard.

#:Erik
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