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Re: thank you master, may I have another.

#36
From: Nathan Hess
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 14:51
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In article <9207280511.AA18185@thalidomide.lucid>, jwz@lucid (Jamie Zawinski) writes:
>Fuck me gently with a chainsaw!  I had made a lot of changes to my inbox
>(deleted 200 of the 900 messages in it.)  My emacs crashed.  No problem,
>I think, I'll just recover the auto-save file.
>
>So I restart, and start up VM.  It doesn't get new mail because it realizes
>that the autosave is newer.  Cool.  But then what happens?  IT DOES AN 
>AUTO-SAVE!!  VM trashed my changes with its current, bogus state.  Hey, 
>how about some foreplay next time?
>

I'm sorry, but we can't help you; you didn't say what version you were
using.


:-)#
--woodstock
-- 
"It doesn't impress the girls, of course, but there's no sense
impressing them and then getting killed, my dad used to say..."  - Hobbes

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From: woodstck@hal.com (Nathan Hess)
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Subject: Re: thank you master, may I have another.
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Date: 28 Jul 92 14:51:21 GMT
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