Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!oliveb!intelca!mipos3!pinkas 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 Lines: 48 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 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UUCP: {amdcad,decwrl,hplabs,oliveb,pur-ee,qantel}!intelca!mipos3!pinkas ARPA: pinkas%mipos3.intel.com@relay.cs.net CSNET: pinkas%mipos3.intel.com