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From: pinkas@mipos3.UUCP (Israel Pinkas)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Backup files and auto-deletion
Message-ID: <357@mipos3.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Jan-87 11:49:05 EST
Article-I.D.: mipos3.357
Posted: Wed Jan  7 11:49:05 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 8-Jan-87 00:50:03 EST
References: <8701061806.AA05139@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: pinkas@mipos3.UUCP (Israel Pinkas)
Organization: Intel, Santa Clara, CA
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This message is directed to those that have been complaining about the
 behavior of backup files in GNU Emacs.

In article <8701061806.AA05139@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> rms@PREP.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard M. Stallman) writes:
>The default behavior of GNU Emacs is to make one backup.  Numbered
>backups are an option.

I have been using GNU Emacs on a GPX with only 100Mb disk storage that is
shared by about 20 people on a LARGE project.  I use the default option,
one backup, and have no trouble with that.  I have a shell script that
removes backup files, and I run this periodically.

If it were up to me, I would install the script to remove any backup files
that were over 5 days old, as they are guaranteed to be on the backup tapes
by then.  I realize that retrieving from backup is a pain, but with a
project that uses up over half the available disk space, there is not much
room for non-essential files.  Besides, we have our main developement on a
780 with RCS control.  (No flames, please, we don't have NFS and we need
the GPX's for development.)

>Marketing doesn't impress me, so I prefer to devote my charitable work
>to software development instead.

Good for you.

>				Those who think that GNU Emacs is no
>good because of a lack of marketing may wish to volunteer their services
>in marketing it.  Let's talk.

If you don;t like the way that Mr. Stallman supplies GNU Emacs, you are
welcome to customize it to any degree you wish.  He even gives you the
sources.  Find one other software developer that is willing to do what the
Free Software Foundation does.  And if you can't stand it, and don't want
to fix it yourself, go to someone else and PAY BIG BUCKS for it.  Mr.
Stallman doesn't owe you anything, he gave you a present.  (Don't bite the
hand that feeds you and all that stuff.)  It's people like you that
discourage others from creative developement.  Just remeber, Mr. Stallman
does have a copyright on GNU Emacs, and it would be within his rights to
charge licensing fees in the future.  In addition, the manual and the
software explicitly state that there is no warantees, nore is the software
guaranteed to be usable for specific applications.

-Israel
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