On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 03:35:36PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
> illustrates this admirably. The poster is in the form of a PDF file and to
> be honest, is best appreciated if you have access to a HP DesignJet or
Speaking of HP Designjets, has anyone managed to utilise the full width of
the paper on a HP Designjet 750c under RH7.x?  The HP can take a 24" wide
roll while the driver (dnj650c) lists a paper size of 16x24.
Unfortunately, this will print only in protrait mode so I get a 24"x24"
page with an unused 8" strip down one side!  I'd like to be able to print
24x<infinity> or whatever (even 24x30!) but I don't seem able to do so.

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| Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 22:00:02 +0100
| From: "Matthew French" <mfrench42@yahoo.co.uk>
|[ ... ]
| Now here is a thought: a Unix version of the "Deleted Items" folder.
|
| In the root of a hard drive, create a directory ".unwanted".
| Then periodically create hard links to every file on the hard
| drive that does not have hard links.
|
| That way, when someone accidentally does "rm *" or whatever,
| you still have a link under ".unwanted"  [ ... ]
hum.  interesting variation on the classic technique of
redefining `rm' to `mv' the files into `./.trash/' (or
with a prefix of `#' or a suffix of `~'; the variations
are endless).  these classic techniques only provide a
means to roll back accidental `rm's, so there is still
considerable scope for data lost as there are other ways
of deleting files --- which is not a problem for this
hard link idea.
but, like the classic techniques, there is no rolling
back of accidental overwrites.
( rolling back overwrites reminds me of the "snapshot"
facility on NetWork Appliance fileservers.  and of the
various "versioning" filesystems which appeared --- and
then vanished? --- over the years.... )
one severe(?) gotcha is some files shouldn't have any
hard links.  both RCS *,v (and hence CVS) and SCCS s.*
files are like this --- the RCS(/CVS?)/SCCS toolsets
complain if there are hard links.
cheers,
-blf-
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