"saveas -f filename"

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From: Aaron Montgomery (monster0@GTE.NET)
Date: 15 Sep 99, 14:12 EST


From: Aaron Montgomery <monster0@GTE.NET>
Subject:      "saveas -f filename"

I'm poking around in the C source code for the I/O routines in Alpha
and it appears that if you invoke the alpha command "saveas" with the
-f option the file is not actually written out to the disk (just the
file spec is changed). Is this really what happens? (if I were better
at Tcl/had more time, I would write a small script to test it myself,
looks like its two uses I found in the Tcl folder assume this
behavior)

If this is the way saveas -f works, it might be worth noting that in
the documentation since my read of the Alpha Commands document is
that "saveas -f filename" would cause the contents of the file to be
saved, whereas it looks like you need to do "saveas -f filename"
followed by a "save".

Aaron

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