Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!renoir.Berkeley.EDU!monardo From: monardo@renoir.Berkeley.EDU (Pat Monardo) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Backups (humor) Message-ID: <16811@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Sat, 10-Jan-87 03:56:12 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.16811 Posted: Sat Jan 10 03:56:12 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Jan-87 06:39:10 EST Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: monardo@renoir.Berkeley.EDU (Pat Monardo) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 30 >> Heavy discussion concerning backups goes here Another fine solution to the backup problem is to prepend dots as backups are spawned. That would lead to unix displaying its data structures like tex: ls -a .dvi.c ..dvi.c ...dvi.c .def.c ..def.c dvi.c def.c and by setting showboxdepth to 0 or 1 ls would print ls -1: .dvi.c .etc. .def.c .etc. dvi.c def.c ls -0 dvi.c def.c