Thanks for the tip. -quit contained a vim buffer of a file that I was toying with earlier - the vim editing.txt. On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 01:08:47AM -0600, David Champion wrote: > On 2001.03.06, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Horace G. Friend III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've got a -quit file in ~/.mutt directory. Can anyone tell me what this > > file is for? > > size - 37054 bytes > > ownership - me:me > > permission- 664 > > Sounds like you left out a file name in some other command - something > that takes, for example, a "-o filename" option for output, and also a > "-quit" flag. If you forgot the file name, you'd have "-o -quit", > which would create a -quit file in the current directory. > > See what kind of file it is: "file ~/.mutt/-quit". That should give > some hints. > > -- > -D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] NSIT University of Chicago -- Horace G. Friend III [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP DH/DSS Key Fingerprint [Send email for public key.] 046A FAE0 1E45 FC3E 0560 BAA5 3BA7 9671 5D87 2BAA