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From: mcgrath%homer.Berkeley.EDU@GINGER.BERKELEY.EDU (Roland McGrath)
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Subject: recover-file doesn't set buffer-modified-p
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Date: 27 May 89 01:56:43 GMT
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GNU Emacs 18.54.2 of Thu Apr 27 1989 on paris.Berkeley.EDU (berkeley-unix)

If you do a recover-file, the just-recovered buffer doesn't have
its buffer-modified-p flag set, so C-x C-s will tell you there's
no changes, but the file has not been written since it was recovered.