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- From: woodstck@hal.com (Nathan Hess)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.bug
- Subject: Re: thank you master, may I have another.
- Message-ID: <153mt9INN7gh@hal.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 14:51:21 GMT
- References: <9207280511.AA18185@thalidomide.lucid>
- Reply-To: woodstck@hal.com (Nathan Hess)
- Organization: HaL Computer Systems, Inc.; Campbell, CA
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- In-reply-to: jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski)
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- In article <9207280511.AA18185@thalidomide.lucid>, jwz@lucid (Jamie Zawinski) writes:
- >Fuck me gently with a chainsaw! I had made a lot of changes to my inbox
- >(deleted 200 of the 900 messages in it.) My emacs crashed. No problem,
- >I think, I'll just recover the auto-save file.
- >
- >So I restart, and start up VM. It doesn't get new mail because it realizes
- >that the autosave is newer. Cool. But then what happens? IT DOES AN
- >AUTO-SAVE!! VM trashed my changes with its current, bogus state. Hey,
- >how about some foreplay next time?
- >
-
- I'm sorry, but we can't help you; you didn't say what version you were
- using.
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-
- :-)#
- --woodstock
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- "It doesn't impress the girls, of course, but there's no sense
- impressing them and then getting killed, my dad used to say..." - Hobbes
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