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From: neal@denelvx.UUCP (Neal Weidenhofer)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: #filename
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Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 12:53:43 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 23 12:53:43 1985
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> > 
> > 	I recently found out that any filename begining with
> > '#' will be deleted upon logout.  I tried it, and, sure enough, it works.
> > I haven't been able to find this mentioned in any docuemtation.  Does anybody 
> > know where to find it?
> 
> Look at /usr/lib/crontab to find the entry causing the files to be deleted.
> Files with a '#' prefix are temporaries created by Pascal (on BSD systems).
> Whether anything else creates '#' files and why they aren't just placed in /tmp,
> I don't know.
> -- 
> 
> 		Karl Ottenstein
> 		Michigan Technological University
> 		uucp: {lanl, ihnp4, glacier}!mtu!karl
> 		arpa/csnet:  karl%mtu@csnet-relay

	These files aren't deleted on our system (for which I'm grateful)
because emacs uses #<filename> to backup your file when you start editing
and ##<filename> to checkpoint it.

			Regards,
				Neal Weidenhofer
"Blame it on the Rolling	Denelcor, Inc.
	Stones"			<hao|csu-cs|brl-bmd>!denelcor!neal