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From: David Moore <dmoore@ucsd.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 1997 10:49:19 -0800
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"Barry A. Warsaw" <bwarsaw@CNRI.Reston.VA.US> writes:

> Can anybody tell me why I have a file ~/.saves-<pid>-<fqdn> in my home
> directory?  The file contains one blank line, then a path to an Emacs
> autosave file.  The file seems to be very temporary -- it goes away
> after a few seconds.  Why is autosave creating these files?

It's making it so it can offer to restore all of your files after a
crash, I think.  It used to make it every 4 seconds or so, but I think
Kyle slowed it down significantly.  It does hurt writing that file out
often over NFS.

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