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From: rog@vitanuova.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] mv vs cp
Date: Tue,  9 Oct 2001 17:59:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011009164640.1042A199BF@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)

> I'm not expert in Plan 9, but it seems to me that it breaks it for the
> user.

surely it's "broken for the user" the moment the user can't move a
file from one place to another for any reason at all (e.g.  because
the file is on a different disk, or a different location on the
network, or whatever).

under Windows, where disks and networks are visible at the top level
of the file tree to the user, perhaps this is slightly more
understandable, but where the file tree is unified, the difference
between "can't because it's on a different disk" and "can't because
it's in a different directory" is surely one of degree not of kind?

  rog.



             reply	other threads:[~2001-10-09 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-09 16:59 rog [this message]
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2001-10-11  3:19 anothy
2001-10-11  3:00 okamoto
2001-10-11  2:18 Russ Cox
2001-10-11  1:06 okamoto
2001-10-10 13:18 forsyth
2001-10-10  1:45 okamoto
2001-10-09 17:16 presotto
2001-10-09 16:39 forsyth
2001-10-10  8:49 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-09 12:25 rob pike
2001-10-09 16:18 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-09 12:05 forsyth
2001-10-09  1:46 okamoto
2001-10-09  5:46 ` Richard
2001-10-08 16:54 presotto
2001-10-08 16:11 anothy
2001-10-08 14:46 rob pike
2001-10-08 15:00 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-08 15:14   ` Markus Friedl
2001-10-08 16:22 ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-08 13:03 rob pike
2001-10-08 14:40 ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-08 13:00 rob pike
2001-10-09  9:04 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-10-09 11:43   ` George Michaelson
2001-10-10  8:57     ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-10-10 11:50       ` Borja Marcos
2001-10-10 11:53         ` Borja Marcos
2001-10-08  6:54 nigel
2001-10-08  5:05 jmk
2001-10-08  5:45 ` Mike Haertel
2001-10-08  6:27   ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-08  6:25 ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-08  9:50 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-10-08  9:51 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-08 15:37 ` Richard
2001-10-08 16:02   ` William Josephson
2001-10-07 21:20 nigel
2001-10-07 19:11 presotto
2001-10-08  7:33 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2001-10-07 18:53 presotto
2001-10-07 16:23 jmk
2001-10-08  4:28 ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-08  4:49   ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-08  6:10     ` George Michaelson
2001-10-08  6:34       ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-08  6:49         ` George Michaelson
2001-10-08  7:00           ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-08  7:13             ` George Michaelson
2001-10-08  7:44               ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-08  7:28             ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-08  6:54       ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-08  7:10         ` George Michaelson
2001-10-08  8:28           ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-08  9:51     ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-08 10:30       ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-09  9:03         ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-09  9:33           ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-09 15:58             ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-09 16:43               ` davel
2001-10-10  8:49                 ` Ralph Corderoy
2001-10-10  8:49                 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-10  9:48                   ` davel
2001-10-11  9:10                     ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-11 10:54                       ` davel
2001-10-12  9:19                         ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-09 16:46               ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-10  8:50                 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-10 10:29                   ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-10  1:05               ` erik quanstrom
2001-10-10  2:15                 ` david presotto
2001-10-10  4:54                   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2001-10-10  8:30                 ` davel
2001-10-08 10:34       ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-08  9:50   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-10-08 11:13     ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-08  9:42 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-07 12:43 presotto
2001-10-07 13:01 ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-07 17:26 ` philw
2001-10-07  7:02 forsyth
2001-10-07  6:35 Russ Cox
2001-10-08  9:41 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-07  6:29 Lucio De Re
2001-10-07  6:42 ` Quinn Dunkan
2001-10-07  9:17   ` Lucio De Re

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