From: Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>
Subject: Re: a big .newsrc.eld is *fragile*
Date: 19 Feb 1999 17:37:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <whg182wdrs.fsf@viffer.oslo.metis.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "19 Feb 1999 17:16:29 +0100"
>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:
> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
>> It's fragile because we risk losing a *lot* of _mostly_ _static_
>> information, if the .newsrc.eld is corrupted
> That's true. But doesn't Emacs create backup files when you save it?
> Or have you switched that off?
I switched that off in 1993 (because of a problem with PC-NFS that
kept a reference to the inode of the old version of a file, ie. edits
from emacs never showed up on Windoze/DOS) and I rather liked that
behaviour so I stuck with it, even after PC-NFS stopped being an
issue.
Is it possible to turn that on for just ~/.newsrc.eld these days?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-02-19 16:37 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 [this message]
1999-02-19 17:03 ` Colin Rafferty
1999-02-19 19:10 ` Colin Rafferty
1999-02-19 19:33 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-02-19 17:04 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1999-02-19 17:22 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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