Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn
Date	2025-11-18 08:49 +0100
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On 2025-11-18 08:20, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Nov 2025 07:25:35 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> 
>> On 2025-11-18 02:06, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, 17 Nov 2025 13:00:09 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>>
>>>> The uni lab where I was learning Pascal using their Vax had limited
>>>> versions to maybe two or three. At least for us students.
>>>
>>> That’s a per-directory setting that you can change. The default limit
>>> for new users was set to 3, just to put a limit on how much clutter
>>> (and disk space) they would be using without realizing it.
>>
>> We did not know that it was possible to change, so we never tried. I
>> seem to recall that we saw our limit number reduced one day.
> 
> The “SET DIRECTORY/VERSION_LIMIT” command set the version limit for all
> files in a directory. There was also “SET FILE/VERSION_LIMIT” to set it on
> a per-file basis.
> 
> All this was explained somewhere in the HELP command, if you snooped
> around enough. ;)

At some point, the VAX became very slow, maybe 10 seconds before the 
cursor moved. Imagine doing a compile, getting a trivial error, open the 
editor, count the lines and columns to get to the place, and doing the 
edit blind. Then wait for the machine to do it.

No time to explore.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-11-14 19:11 +0000
  Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2025-11-14 19:43 +0000
    Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-14 20:11 +0000
  Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-11-15 10:34 +0000
    Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-15 22:35 +0000
      Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-17 13:00 +0100
        Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-11-17 12:01 -0500
        Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-18 01:06 +0000
          Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-18 07:25 +0100
            Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-18 07:20 +0000
              Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-18 08:49 +0100
                Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-18 08:11 +0000
                Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-18 17:46 +0100
  Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2025-11-15 14:03 +0200

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