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From: whm@arizona.UUCP (Bill Mitchell)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Centralized backup and checkpoint files for Unipress Emacs?
Message-ID: <15056@arizona.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Aug-84 05:24:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 30 05:24:00 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 31-Aug-84 02:40:13 EDT
Organization: Dept of CS, U of Arizona, Tucson
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Does anybody have a set of mods that would allow Unipress Emacs to write
backup and checkpoint files in a directory hierarchy modeling that of
the entire file system?  More specifically, suppose that you are in
/usr/src/local/foo and Emacs is about to write a backup file for main.c.
I'd like to have it write that file in the directory $EBACK/usr/src/local/foo,
where EBACK is some per-user subdirectory.  Thus, the backup and checkpoint
files wouldn't be cluttering the current directory and it would also be easy
to get rid of them in one swoop.

I've done some poking around and it seems that this would be pretty simple
to do, only requiring small changes in ConcoctName and WriteFile.