Re: Global Rename heaven

Roedy Green wrote: 
I would be nice that links in general were not so fragile.

For example.  If I rename an HTML file, it would be nice if every link
in the universe were automatically updated to point to the new file.


Aaaaah... Centralized information, Big Brother and communisme... That would be soooo easy.
Ok, just kidding :)
I don't think this would be a very good thing:
- maintenance of such a system would be huge: backup and recovery systems, clusters, etc.
- time/cpu spent to check for updates
- who would own this repository? M$oft? :)

Who needs it, when there is the wonderful "J:drive" and the "Replicator"? :)

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JSC
Sorry, I am not using the J:drive, but sometimes go your glossary
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