Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!parc.xerox.com!bobrow From: bobrow@parc.xerox.com (Danny Bobrow) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Lost some mail Message-ID: Date: 14 Aug 90 01:14:30 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 19 I am a new aand relatively naive Andressw and Unix user. I just lost a rather long message I was composing; this distressed me as you might imagine, and Bill Janssen said you would be interested. While the composiition window was open, I noticed that a previous message I thought I had kept a copy of was not aaround. I went to the Help document, and found out how to make that happen, and went into Set Options. Found lots of interesting options, and turned a number of switches, including bcc. Did no Alter's. Then not understanding how to get out of Set Options, I went back to the messages window and clicked on a mail folder name. Got the following message in the console window Segmentation Violation signal caught; checkpointed server state... and the messages window disappeared. Started messages again. Then looked for a *.CKP file with contents like my composed message. Couldn't find one anywhere with the right contents.. Sniff. And I thought this couldn't happen. I'll try it again soon, after I make sure I have read my mail and mailed everything.