[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.