On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 11:26:13AM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > > > > what's wrong with the current practice of putting deadjoe in the current > > directory? > > cwd == /tmp How about adopting the way One True Editor deals with that? ;-) /var/tmp/joe.recover, that is (and unique file names there, obviously). <g,d&r>