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autosave *VM-Mail*

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From: Kyle Jones
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1993 23:28
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Thorbjoern Hansen writes:
 > 
 > [VM 5.33 beta]
 > 
 > If I invoke vm-mail in a buffer that lies in a directory which I
 > cannot write, the autosave routine will try to save *VM-Mail* to that
 > directory, and fail, thus beeping every 300 keystrokes.
 > 
 > What is the right thing to do?  Change vm-mail,
 > make-auto-save-file-name or buffer-auto-save-file-name?  Or something
 > else?

I consider this to be the problem of autosave/recover code.
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1993 19:28:04 -0400
From: kyle@crystal.wonderworks.com (Kyle Jones)
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Subject: autosave *VM-Mail*
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