On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 06:57:03PM +0200, Tobias Pape wrote:
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> > On 12.09.2020, at 16:31, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > With the REPL image if it starts up and evaluates an expression of two (which are not logged) and then quits nothing has changed but the QUIT/NO SAVE has been written, and now my reproducible image/changes pair is no longer in exactly the same state; the changes file has grown.
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> In that particular case, wouldn't it suffice to just make the Changes file read-only?
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Just exit with Smalltalk quitPrimitive. It's perfectly safe on unix.

Dave