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From: Craig_Everhart@TRANSARC.COM
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Subject: Re: preference file
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Date: 10 Jul 90 17:51:38 GMT
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Messages looks for various options in your ~/preferences (or
~/.preferences or ~/.Xdefaults) file only when it starts up.  If you
start Messages and then edit your ~/preferences file, that incarnation
of Messages won't see your changes.  You should quit your first Messages
and start another.

Yes, the file ``preferences'' should be stored in your home directory,
whatever the value of the environment variable HOME is.

The options that Messages sets in ``Set Options'' are stored in special
fields of your ~/preferences file.  If you do Set Options, and then save
over your ~/preferences file from a text editor that you had loaded an
old copy of your ~/preferences file into, you've overwritten your Set
Options values.

		Craig