Gary Eickmeier wrote:


Wayne J. Cosshall wrote:

David Dyer-Bennet wrote:


There's been some argument now and then about maybe adding version
numbering to Sun's ZFS filesystem, and it got interesting with the
old TOPS-20 hacks saying how simple and useful it was an other people
saying how it would pollute your directories and make everything
totally confusing :-).

(I was a customer from 1977-1979, supported TOPS-20 and VMS in the
field until 1981, and was in Marlboro in the layered products group
until 1985).


HI David,

TOPS-20 was pretty great and was a nice OS to do sys admin and systems
programming on back then. If I remember rightly you could set a
preference in a config file as to how many back versions you wanted to
keep. Saved my bacon on a number of occasions.

What is this about versions? When I save as different types of files, it
still has the photo's original number from the camera. Even if I renamed
it, it would still be "Doggy.jpg" and "Doggy.TIF." What's the problem?

Gary Eickmeier
What we are talking about is this old operating system would save a
file, say xyz.psd as xyz.psd.001, when it is saved next time as
xyz.psd.002 and so on. What I do manually is, when I am working on an
image, say steadily working on it till I am finally happy I manually do
Save as and then change the name to xyz v2.psd, etc. This way I have a
number of files back to previous developments of my image. This works
for me because I may take an image in multiple directions and then later
decide which I prefer.

Cheers,

Wayne

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