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Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn

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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.

> 
>> A short time after knowing this I bought my first computer, an
>> Amstrad 1512 DD, and I was sad to learn that Dos did not have this
>> feature.
> 
> The original “Macintosh File System” volume format (that was used on the
> single-sided 400K floppies that didn’t support hierarchical directories)
> had a one-byte field in each file entry for a “version number”, but this
> was always set to zero. I never got around to trying to see if setting it
> nonzero did anything, probably because this field went away pretty soon
> with HFS (“Hierarchical File System”) when that was introduced with
> Apple’s first hard-drive product for the Mac.


-- 
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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