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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.