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Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers
From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:22:27 +0100
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> I'll take control files any day of the week over this mess.

one advantage they still have (even if the other weren't quite so messy)
is that with control files you've got a connection you can keep open,
which can be useful, and the control file itself can have different
attributes (eg permissions) from the controlled file(s) or directories.