On 1/9/24 03:15, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
You ruined my day :-)
It was not my fault. Send complaints to the people who convened as
"High Sierra Group" in 1986.
Something similar to IBM's kludgiest relic of the early 1960s has appeared
in linux?
The unixoid
Bret Busby (12024-01-09):
> Whilst, as I previously made the point, this is all off-topic for a Debian
> operating system users mailing list, one (and, only one) of the applications
> of version numbers as part of file descriptors, with (in the case of
> VAX/VMS) up to the last seven versions of a
Hi,
Bret Busby wrote:
> Whilst, as I previously made the point, this is all off-topic for a Debian
> operating system users mailing list
But i found a premium excuse in the debian-cd and debian-live ISOs. :o)
> the last seven versions of a file, being retained, was a
> useful tool for software
On 9/1/24 16:02, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
The idea that we need version numbers embedded in filenames
involuntarily may be "natural" to somebody.
I have never seen any version other than ";1" (and ISOs which simply
ignore the specs about file names). It's a
Hi,
Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> You ruined my day :-)
It was not my fault. Send complaints to the people who convened as
"High Sierra Group" in 1986.
> Something similar to IBM's kludgiest relic of the early 1960s has appeared
> in linux?
The unixoid community added System Use Protocol and
On Mon, Jan 8, 2024, 11:38 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Bret Busby wrote:
> > > .;
>
> Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
> > IBM's MVS & its successors, most recently z/OS, have something
> > similar called a GDG (or Generation Data Group).
>
> The principle made it into ISO 9660 specifications.
>
> To
On 8 Jan 2024, at 9:17, Bret Busby wrote:
> But, apart from the functionality that I have not seen in any other operating
> system, of using an extra file descriptor of version number, so the whole
> filename would be something like
> .;
> (I am not sure whether that syntax is correct - I have
Hi,
Bret Busby wrote:
> > .;
Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
> IBM's MVS & its successors, most recently z/OS, have something
> similar called a GDG (or Generation Data Group).
The principle made it into ISO 9660 specifications.
To make this thread relevant for Debian, let's assume that somebody
asked
On Mon, 8 Jan 2024, at 09:17, Bret Busby wrote:
> But, apart from the functionality that I have not seen in any other
> operating system, of using an extra file descriptor of version number,
> so the whole filename would be something like
> .;
IBM's MVS & its successors, most recently z/OS,
On 8/1/24 08:44, The Wanderer wrote:
On 2024-01-07 at 19:20, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
On Sun, Jan 7, 2024, 4:51 PM Charles Curley
wrote:
On Sun, 7 Jan 2024 20:36:12 +
"Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote:
Gene - no partisan opinions, please, as per Code of Conduct?
Oh, come on! Just because
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