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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Subject: Re: a big .newsrc.eld is *fragile*
Date: 19 Feb 1999 20:33:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ogmqgpdq.fsf@pc-hrvoje.srce.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Colin Rafferty's message of "19 Feb 1999 12:03:12 -0500"

Colin Rafferty <craffert@ms.com> writes:

> > I switched that off in 1993 ... and I rather liked that behaviour
> > so I stuck with it, even after PC-NFS stopped being an issue.
> 
> You are a brave man.

I, for one, can't stand backup files.  I turn them off in every editor 
that I use.  I have nothing against auto-saving, though -- it's just
the buggers with tidles at the end of the name that get on my nerves.


  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-02-19 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-02-16 14:00 Steinar Bang
1999-02-19 16:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-19 16:37   ` Steinar Bang
1999-02-19 17:03     ` Colin Rafferty
1999-02-19 19:10       ` Colin Rafferty
1999-02-19 19:33       ` Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
1999-02-19 17:04     ` Karl Kleinpaste
1999-02-19 17:22     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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