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Read-Modify-Write mode
- To: REM at MIT-MC
- Subject: Read-Modify-Write mode
- From: JONL at MIT-MC (Jon L White)
- Date: Mon, 1 Dec 80 08:59:00 GMT
- Cc: (BUG LISP) at MIT-MC
- Original-date: 1 DEC 1980 0359-EST
I guess we never considered this for MacLISP. Initially, the ITS
file system didn't encourage this kind of file usage, so one normally
just loads a whole file into a "buffer", modifies it, and then
re-writes it, either to a new file, or replacinng the old one.