tsarna%cub@uunet.uu.net (Tyler Sarna) (01/30/91)
In comp.sys.amiga.advocacy, Hazy Dave wrote: > Amiga has facilities which do the same kind of thing. One such facility is > file notification. [under 2.0] > [...] On the Amiga, an > application can not only import a file, but ask the filesystem to send it a > message if that file ever changes. Heck, this could make for one hell of a version control system... totally transparent check-ins. It would require a daemon to always be running to receive the messages and do the work, but still... interesting possibilities! I want my 2.0! (I know you guys must get tired of this constant 2.0 whining, but it's your own fault for making it so nifty! :-> ) ------///------------------------------------------------------------ /// Tyler "Ty" Sarna E-Mail: tsarna@polar.bowdoin.edu \\\/// "I think cement is more interesting than people think" --\XX/---------------------------------------------------------------
ccplumb@rose.uwaterloo.ca (Colin Plumb) (01/30/91)
tsarna%cub@uunet.uu.net (Tyler Sarna) wrote: > Heck, this could make for one hell of a version control > system... totally transparent check-ins. It would require a > daemon to always be running to receive the messages and do the > work, but still... interesting possibilities! The file notification is, IMHO, A Very Good Thing Indeed. What's interesting is that this minor part of 2.0 bears a strong resemblance to the IAC "hot links" features of the Mac's System 7.0 that are so extensively ballyhooed! (It's also fun to edit pointers in Dpaint III instead of bothering with that (much improved, but still) boring preferences editor.) -- -Colin