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From: ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek)
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Subject: Re: backup files in EMACS, linked files
Summary: Reply impossible!  Therefore followup.  1000 excuses!
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Date: 17 Aug 90 09:17:14 GMT
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In-reply-to: paul@ixi.uucp's message of 7 Aug 90 15:54:17 GMT

I tried to reply to Paul Davey as suggested in article
<PAUL.90Aug7165417@rutland.ixi.uucp> paul@ixi.uucp writes:

|  Rather than waste bandwidth if you feel strongly one way or the other
|  mail me and I'll summarize.

So, here's that reply.  Sorry for having to post.

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I missed the original discussion referenced below:

|  In article <JB3$$T@rpi.edu> tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes:
|      (setq backup-by-copying t)
|
|  This question and problem seem to be fairly common, I would suspect
|  that many (most?) people use this mode. Perhaps it should be the
|  default?

but I specify the following:

	(setq backup-by-copying-when-linked t)

and therefore it only does the copying when the original file is
linked.  I would think that this should be the default.

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Cheers,


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