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From: vemula@pluto.cs.ucf.edu (Udaya Bhaskar Vemulapati)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Strange behaviour of back-up
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Date: 14 Feb 91 23:00:11 GMT
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I use Gnu Emacs 18.55 and I noticed that if you edit any file in "/tmp" 
directory, no back-ups are produced. I then went back to the Emacs
lisp file "files.el" and saw some code that was actually checking whether
the first 5 characters are "/tmp" before creating a backup file. 
	Does any one know why it was set up like that ?