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- From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
- Subject: Re: edit buffer lost at disconnection
- Message-ID: <Bz695z.DBD@unix.amherst.edu>
- Organization: Elitist Usenet Administrators, Turkey Division
- References: <Bz28FM.Mq6@ddsw1.mcs.com> <1g8u2kINNsvs@dsinc.dsi.com> <Bz5u6K.7En@iat.holonet.net>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 00:25:10 GMT
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- In article <Bz5u6K.7En@iat.holonet.net> dattier@orac.holonet.net (DWT) writes:
-
- >T> HOW can I keep Elm from removing $tmpdir/snd.$$ upon hangups? I think Elm
- >T> should remove that file only when the user exits the editor (and the header
- >T> editing screen) and issues a s)end or f)orget command.
- >
- >[This solution] would get forced on all users. [I'm the only user with
- >the problem, and recompiling with those lines of code commented out would
- >require all users to rm their $tmpdir/snd.$$ files by hand. I'd put up with
- >that as the cost of the cure, but why should everyone else on ddsw1?]
-
- Wouldn't this solution cause the temporary snd file to linger *only*
- upon hangup? That seems to me like the optimal default behavior, with
- a possible user-settable option to override it.
-
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