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- SET HANDLE-CHANGED-MODTIME ALWAYS/never/ask - how MM handles a file problem
-
- The HANDLE-CHANGED-MODTIME variable controls what MM does when it appears
- that some other program has changed the current mail file. Whenever you
- GET a file, MM locks the file (preventing another MM process from
- modifying it), and then while the file is locked MM keeps track of
- the last time it modified the file.
-
- With the usual ALWAYS (or YES) setting, if MM finds that the last time the
- file was modified does not match, it writes the version it has in memory
- to a new file, and EXAMINES that file (that is, you have read-only access
- to it). The purpose is to let you decide which version of the mail file
- you want, and to stop incoming mail until you have a chance to look into
- the problem.
-
- If it is set to NO, MM will just print a warning when the condition occurs.
- If it is set to ASK, MM will ask whether to follow the YES procedure.
-
- For more help, type "help" and one of these topics:
- (at any prompt:) save-init set modify-read-only
- (at the MM> prompt:) get examine
-