From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Andrew Morrow" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Problem with backup files on different networks Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:39:35 -0400 Organization: Dataradio Inc., Montreal, Canada Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <3CB567E7.27647.671B88@localhost> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018541182 10630 127.0.0.1 (11 Apr 2002 16:06:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:06:22 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([195.204.10.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16vgzi-0000o2-06 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 18:00:19 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (fencepost.gnu.org [199.232.76.164]) by hermes.netfonds.no (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g3BEgAf27561 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:42:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16vfm5-00029w-00; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:42:09 -0400 Original-Received: from ns2.dataradio.com ([198.168.41.4] helo=vhf2.dataradio.com) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16vfjO-0001vv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:39:23 -0400 Original-Received: from andrewm (android.dataradio.com [198.168.36.31]) by vhf2.dataradio.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3BEdLMB018352 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:39:21 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02-b3) Content-description: Mail message body Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:569 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:569 (I posted this message on the GNUSoftware.com discussion list a few days ago but did not receive any responses so I'm sending it here.) I am running GNU Emacs 21.1.1 (i386-msvc-windows98.1998) of 2001-10-22 on buffy installed from the file emacs-21.1-fullbin-i386.tar.gz on a Windows 98 (4.10.1998) machine. I have 3 kinds of drives letters attached to my machine: - the local hard disk (C:) - a directory on a Netware 4.11 server (F:) - a directory on a Samba share (P:) If I open a text file (say "sample.txt"), modify it and then save it back with C-s C-x then I get 3 different behaviours: - on C:, sample.txt is written and no backup file is created. - on F:, the modified file is written to sample.txt~; the original sample.txt is gone and I can't recover it with Netware's Filer/Salvage program. - on P:, the original file is renamed to sample.txt~; the modified file is written to sample.txt. I can't figure out why the behaviour is different on all 3 kinds of drives. As I understand it, everything should work as it does on the P: drive. Is there anything I can do to investigate this problem further? TIA, Andrew. ___________________________________________________________ ((( o ))) Andrew Morrow Senior Software Designer ___|_ Dataradio Inc. |_____| Montreal, Quebec email: amorrow@dataradio.com web: http://www.dataradio.com