On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 01:04:24PM -0600, David DeSimone wrote: > Sadiq Al-Lawatia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > "~/Mail/tmp/mutt-csce-4803-30 [#1] modified. Update encoding? > > ([yes]/no): " > > So, the mystery here is, why does Mutt think that you're changing the > file behind his back? Does your editor run in parallel with Mutt, like > does it launch a separate X-window for you to edit in, while in the > xterm where you ran Mutt, it thinks you are finished editing? That's > the only thing I can think of.
I notice that the tmp directory is somewhere under the home directory so could possibly be nfs mounted - if there is a time skew between the server and the computer running mutt this could potentially cause problems too. I am having a hard time expressing exactly how this would work but I'm pretty sure I've seen something like this happen to me before. -kyle -- http://mas.cs.umass.edu/~rawlins -- To recall is to call.
