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At 5:45 PM -0400 6/13/04, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
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>One possible solution is to go with a time-related prefix
>for files after they are rotated.

Er.  "suffix", not "prefix".  Ahem.

So, maybe something like "log.t2004f14a" instead of "log.0".
I could obviously spell out the time more, but that would
be an even longer suffix...

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