Yesterday I reported that emacs on our system was not saving the backup files
correctly. (It was only saving the original backup file, but nothing ever 
got written
there again after later edits.) Well, today, the problem has mysteriously 
disappeared!
What could have been going on? We are totally stumped and want to figure this
out so it doesn't happen again. Any ideas would be most appreciated. Thanks.

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>Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 13:07:54 -0600
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>From: Nancy McDermott <mcdermot@ssc.wisc.edu>
>Subject: System-wide problem with backup files
>
>We use emacs 21.2.1 on Tru64 and Linux servers. Recently (and we don't 
>know exactly when),
>the backup files have not been updating properly. It only saves the 
>original backup file, but no
>other changes when the file is edited subsequently. We haven't upgraded 
>emacs for over a year
>so we haven't changed emacs itself recently. Does anyone have any idea 
>what could be causing this?
>Your help would be very much appreciated as the problem is affecting a lot 
>of our users. Thanks.
>
>Nancy McDermott, Director
>Social Science Computing Cooperative
>University of Wisconsin - Madison
>1180 Observatory Drive
>Madison, WI  53706
>(608) 262-3206
>mcdermot@ssc.wisc.edu
>
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Nancy