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From: jma@abel.UUCP (Jeff Abrahamson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,gnu.emacs.bug,news.software.b
Subject: GNU Emacs deletes file without warning under ISC UNIX V.3.0.1
Summary: rmail mode, reading news2.11 mail file
Keywords: rmail mode, news2.11
Message-ID: <438@abel.UUCP>
Date: 7 Aug 89 13:32:42 GMT
Reply-To: jma@abel.UUCP (Jeff Abrahamson)
Organization: UPenn Mathematics, Philadelphia (Havertown)
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	When I use the GNU Emacs command "run-input" (i) on the file
Rec.humor.funn, emacs converts to Babyl format and shows me a bunch of
jokes.  What it doesn't show me is that when it saves the Babyl format
file, it has really just deleted the original.  Not even widening and
doing a "save-buffer" or "write-file Rec.humor.funn" causes it to
reappear.  It does reappear if I save under another name.

	Now, ~/News/Rec.humor.funn (the truncation is due to UNIX
brain-damage 14 char filenames) is created by news2.11, supposedly in
UNIX mbox format.  I generally move it to ~/Mail/Rec.humor.funn once
it is in Babyl format, since I have had trouble letting anything but
emacs write to an emacs rmail file (documentation notwithstanding).
If I read ~/Mail/Rec.humor.funn, though, emacs deletes that as well.


	This is behavior I've never seen before.  Any thoughts?




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