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From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org>
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> years ago I used a VAX VMS system that automatically saved file versions
> whenever a file name was clobbered.
>
> I've seen wrapper scripts for vi to accomplish the same but it would be
> nice if someone had actually implemented something at the file system
> level to do this.  Anyone know of anything like that for FreeBSD?

Nope, not that I know of... I'm not sure you'll find a lot of people who
like this unless they were accustomed to VMS back however long ago.

Ken