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|    D Finnigan to fadden    |
|    Re: CP/M filesystem questions    |
|    11 Aug 23 12:56:05    |
      From: dog_cow@macgui.com              fadden wrote:       > The CP/M filesystem continues to delight and terrify me.       >              If computer file systems had been designed by persons with secretarial       experience, perhaps they'd be less brain-damaged.              Even now it's an arbitrary limitation against more than one file having the       same file name in a directory, even when there are plenty of practical use       cases for having multiple files with the same name in a directory with       differing modification or creation dates. An intelligent user interface       would notice this plurality and would allow differentiation based on date or       whatever other distinguishing attribute.              --       ]DF$       The New Apple II User's Guide:       https://macgui.com/newa2guide/              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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