From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihps3!houxi!deimos!orion!lime!burdvax!puder
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: Ucbmail users watch out for Zimmerman"s emacs
Article-I.D.: burdvax.259
Posted: Mon Oct 25 14:07:37 1982
Received: Wed Oct 27 04:34:41 1982
References: tpdcvax.188

Our distribution came with a line in crontab commanding the deletion of all
old files whose names begin with '#', so it appears to be the norm in 4.1bsd.

Gosling's emacs appends '.bak' to the filename, but first truncates the name
to ten characters so the last four characters of the name will really be
'.bak'.  This will presumably not be necessary in 4.2bsd which, I have heard,
will support longer filenames.