Re: backup files to a specific place POSSIBLE?

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From: Dan_Jacobson
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1991 02:19

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>>>>> On 20 Apr 91 19:20:23 GMT, fox@allegra.att.com (David Fox) said
>>>>> in gnu.emacs.sources:

David> Very nice, but doesn't putting your autosave files in /tmp pretty
David> much defeat the whole purpose of having autosave files at all?
David> /tmp is cleared on reboot.  I recommend /usr/tmp, or perhaps
David> "$HOME/.autosave" or (concat (getenv "LOCALDISK") "/autosave").

for my outgoing e-mail and netnews buffers, I have all my autosaves go
to ~/.mail/* .  Then I have a nightly cron job remove any over a week
old.

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Subject: Re: backup files to a specific place POSSIBLE?
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