On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 10:07:39AM +0000, Richard Urwin wrote: > > This sounds like a two phase save problem. > In order not to loose your work if there is a catastrophic crash, many editors > save the edited file under a temporary name, then rename the original as a > backup, and rename the saved file under the original name. > > If any program has the file open for reading, they will still have the > original file open, and not the new file. If there is a link to the old file, > it will still point to the old file.
No, I don't think that's it. I have now installed Mandrake 9.0 on my crash machine and the problem does not occur there. I can do 'crontab -e' quite successfully. Same version of Mandrake, same version of emacs, same .emacs file. So if it's not a hardware problem --- which seems extremely unlikely to me --- then it must be some system setting. Or something. andy -- Andy Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything.
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