[A82] Re: writeback?
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[A82] Re: writeback?
> Van: Kouri <Kouri@ucdavis.edu>
>
> I thought writeback meant that you had a copy of a program and you needed
to
> make the changes permanent so that forced you to overwrite the old
program
> with the new one. Otherwise it wouldn't be writeback, it would just be
> self-modifying code. Or maybe I just messed the terms up?
I think some shells makers started this "confusion"...
>From Ion.txt
-Basic Shell Features
[...]
-Program write-back.