[Oberon] Strange Oberon users ?

[jan verhoeven]

Op Sunday 30 October 2005 15:21 schreef easlab at absamail.co.za:

 > the file-backup method of 'cycling through 3 media'

When programming, I regularly make backups on an ancient medium: sheets of 
paper. Easier to find bugs (for an old man like me) and in case of a 
disaster (which is not a fire) I still have the manuscript.

Another option would be to do something similar to use the brute force 
method for backing up:

 - start at the root
 - do a directory listing
 - IF  sym = directory  THEN  
      follow path
   ELSE
      read file;
      write file to backup file
   END
 - store file

It's similar to what 'tar' and 'backup' (from DOS) used to do.

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Jan Verhoeven
http://fruttenboel.verhoeven272.nl