>> On a similar subject, here's a suggestion for a really useful thing
>> somebody needs to write, if they haven't already :
>> A utility which intercepts any file overwrite or delete operation in
>> specified directories, and stashes away a copy of the old version (EVERY
>> old version) in an archive, which can then be periodically burned to a CD.
>> There are many times when I've wished I had every previous version of a
>> file....
>
> You can do this with Linux pretty easily ... wrap your "edit" or "vi" command
> with a script that makes a copy first, then deletes the copy if the new
> version of the file is identical to the previous copy.

You can do _that_ just as easily on pretty any current desktop system. But
it only protects changes through those commands. Therefore, to be really
useful, you'd need something that hooks into the file system call.

Gerhard

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