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Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: UEmacs 3.10
Message-ID: <5322@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 89 21:46:11 GMT
References: <440@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State U., E. Lansing MI
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From article <440@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM>, by krupczak@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM (Bobby Krupczak):
> I am using Micro Emacs 3.10.  I have noticed that 3.10 seems to ignore
> current file permissions and use my umask setting by default.  Also
> when editing files owned by other users, the owner gets changed to
> me?  Has anyone encountered similiar problems, and if so, is there
> a fix for 3.10 that I dont have?

From the content of your posting I am assuming you're running under a
UNIX system. When you post problems always include machine and OS names,
it helps get an answer.

TO answer your question, place the following line in your .emacsrc file
and everything will be fine:

set $ssave FALSE


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