jma@abel.UUCP (Jeff Abrahamson) (08/08/89)
In article <438@abel.UUCP> jma@abel.UUCP (Jeff Abrahamson) writes: > > When I use the GNU Emacs command "run-input" (i) on the file > Rec.humor.funn, emacs converts to Babyl format and shows me a bunch of > jokes. What it doesn't show me is that when it saves the Babyl format > file, it has really just deleted the original. Not even widening and > doing a "save-buffer" or "write-file Rec.humor.funn" causes it to > reappear. It does reappear if I save under another name. > > Now, ~/News/Rec.humor.funn (the truncation is due to UNIX > brain-damage 14 char filenames) is created by news2.11, supposedly in > UNIX mbox format. I generally move it to ~/Mail/Rec.humor.funn once > it is in Babyl format, since I have had trouble letting anything but > emacs write to an emacs rmail file (documentation notwithstanding). > If I read ~/Mail/Rec.humor.funn, though, emacs deletes that as well. It turns out that running rmail on a file with name 14 characters long (where 14 is the max allowed) causes the bug. cp RMAIL abcdefghijklmnop [run rmail on abcdefghijklmnop, make some minor modification, like adding a label, then save it. abcdefghijklmnop won't be there anymore.] -Jeff -- ---------- Jeff Abrahamson jma@abel.uucp, abel!jma@manta.pha.pa.us UPenn Mathematics jma@grad1.cis.upenn.edu Bicycle Coalition of the Delaware Valley