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Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 12:30:09 -0400
From: Ken Brown <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: .#* lock files under X, for files I edit???
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On 5/21/2009 12:23 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 5/21/2009 12:00 PM, Marc Girod wrote:
>> -rwxrwxrwx   1 emagiro  ath          104 May 21 13:57 .#singlebuildweb.pl
> [...]
> 
> These look to me like emacs auto-save files.  They should disappear each 
> time you save the file you're editing.

Sorry, I think they're emacs lock files.  Auto-save files look like 
#filename#.  But they still should disappear each time you save the file.

Ken

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