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From: John Mackin <john@syd.dit.csiro.au>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1991 12:39:17 -0500
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Subject: Re: 1 (global) history file
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Paul says Byron says global history is good; and he likes it too.

Chris has trouble with it.

Bengt has no trouble with it.

My story: I've _always_ used one history file per "display" (even pre-X,
i.e. V8, which is why the quotes).  I love it, and hate it when some of
the windows are too remote to write to the history.  _But_ -- ever since
I started getting involved with NFS, and _especially_ since moving to
a Sun platform, I have had a _lot_ of trouble with it.  Clearly, the NFS
writes interfere with each other; I haven't read the source to prove this
but I am sure this is what is happening -- they all think they know where
to append, even though they don't really.  I am wondering if opening
the history O_APPEND would help?  Perhaps someone with NFS source handy
and a tad of time could have a quick read and advise us on this.  Even
though it causes me problems, I won't switch back, because it _mostly_
works and I prefer a mostly-working global history to fully-working
per-window history.

OK,
John.