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Re: Thought I was posting !

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From: Heidi de Wet
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 08:02
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jgraham@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (the End) writes:
>Once in a while after composing a long agonizing emacs message, I do the 
>contlol-X, control-C, only to my horror to see :
>
>Send letter ? (s)
>
>Is there any way to recover from this ? If I am on one of the better computers
>(Macintosh, SUN :) its not a big deal to copy and paste into a new 
>"f" follow-up message. In the hell that is DOS or UNIX, I would have to retype
>the entire message to change it from a "reply through mail" to a "follow-up". 

There are a whole lot of options you can enter at this prompt (I have
all of them listed above the prompt, presumably because I'm not an
expert user :-)  The options include w)rite, which then prompts you for
a filename to append the article to.  Another option is e)dit, which 
puts you back in the editor, from where you could also save to a temp
file.  Perhaps a p)ost option should be added, though.

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Heidi de Wet                                 >>>  FREE  TSAFENDAS  <<<
heidi@ucthpx.uct.ac.za                       and give him back his job
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From: heidi@ucthpx.uct.ac.za (Heidi de Wet)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Re: Thought I was posting !
Message-ID: <1992Nov18.080210.2780@ucthpx.uct.ac.za>
Date: 18 Nov 92 08:02:10 GMT
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