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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
>
>> It _can_ do that (depending on you settings), but in that case it
>> doesn't use the filename parameter.
>
> `X u' and friends does use the filename parameter, and doesn't prompt
> for anything.

Auch!  They are *far* too dangerous -- they don't strip the directory
part of the file name, and they don't complain if the file already
exists.  So, e.g.

      begin 664 /home/harder/.login

will happily overwrite my .login file.