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From: mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Mike DeCorte)
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Subject: Re: Writing code by hand (was: Basics of Program Design)
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Date: 8 Jul 88 04:24:16 GMT
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   You often find that the old
   stuff you wanted was in n+1 versions ago.  This fear discourages you
   from saving your work often, which can have other bad effects.

In gnu emacs, there are the following variable that *you* can
set.  

make-backup-files (nil or non-nill)
kept-old-versions (a number, default 2)
kept-new-versions (a number, default 2)

Using this you can choose n.  If you like you could make n=# of files you
can put on our disk.  I wouldn't advise it, but you could. :-)



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