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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme, dump, and $HOME
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 14:19:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <68a0b807567ccd21c51d85db24fe74a5@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOw7k5jyekz+vGM4SmvB2QyiHn2cmcvEuj8iVwUb-8ECbCeqBQ@mail.gmail.com>

>
> The idea is that the dump file is a snapshot of a particular state, and it
> made sense to me to update
> the given state, instead of putting it back in the default file despite
> being given an explicit state.
> That seemed to me a bit contrary.

also if a snapshot is wanted, then we have a tool for that: cp(1).  :-)

- erik



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-13 19:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-13 16:42 Paul Lalonde
2014-01-13 16:49 ` dexen deVries
2014-01-13 18:29   ` Paul Lalonde
2014-01-13 16:57 ` Charles Forsyth
2014-01-13 18:30   ` Paul Lalonde
2014-01-13 18:53     ` Bence Fábián
2014-01-13 19:01       ` Paul Lalonde
2014-01-13 19:17     ` Charles Forsyth
2014-01-13 19:18       ` erik quanstrom
2014-01-13 19:19       ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2014-01-13 19:36       ` Paul Lalonde
2014-01-13 21:39     ` Pete
2014-01-16  5:39   ` b.

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