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From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: c library for handling backup files?
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 15:21:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1ob5Hs-0007sl-1h@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r104y230.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Thierry Volpiatto on Wed, 21 Sep 2022 19:11:47 +0000)

   >> From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
   >> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 08:34:35 -0400
   >> 
   >> Does anyone know of a C library for handling Emacs-like backup files?
   >> E.g., if writing a file, the function would do the right thing.
   >
   > Coreutils do that, no?  E.g., "cp -b".

   dired-async.el provides a backup function similar to
   cp -f --backup=numbered from to.

You might want to go to the optician, so you can Cee what you missed
in my message ... ;-)



  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-21 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-21 12:34 c library for handling backup files? Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-09-21 13:06 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-09-21 13:14 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-09-21 13:29   ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-09-21 13:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-21 19:11   ` Thierry Volpiatto
2022-09-21 19:21     ` Alfred M. Szmidt [this message]
2022-09-21 20:50       ` Thierry Volpiatto
2022-09-22  4:43       ` tomas

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