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Date:      Sun, 13 May 2001 09:42:27 +0200
From:      Francois Kritzinger <ffkrz@iafrica.com>
To:        Andrew Hesford <ajh3@usrlib.org>
Cc:        freeBSD Mailing List <questions@freeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: COPY, CUT, PASTE (FILES)
Message-ID:  <3AFE3AE2.72C6E90B@iafrica.com>
References:  <3AFCE758.63DE32E1@iafrica.com> <20010512141419.A2406@core.usrlib.org> <3AFDA17D.377416FA@iafrica.com> <20010512191429.A3099@core.usrlib.org>

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Andrew Hesford wrote:

> Since this is an open UNIX, and UNIX was designed to be customized, why
> don't you write such a utility and contribute it to the base (assuming
> they will incorporate it)?  Create a directory called /var/cache or
> something, and then when you do `cache filename` it would move (or copy)
> the file into /var/cache. Then a simple `drop-cache` would dump the
> cached file into the current directory.

Funny, that is actually exactly why I originally asked this question... I was
thinking about writing myself one... I don't think I have the skills or
confindence to try to contribute to the base though :)

>
>
> --
> Andrew Hesford
> ajh3@usrlib.org


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