In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "D
avid C. Winters" writes:

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>That was it.  I used GNU Emacs to modify the files, winding up with filename
>and filename~.  Deleted the "~" copies and all's well.  THanks.

Just a suggestion. Add the following to your ~.emacs file:

(defun make-backup-file-name (FILE)
(concat "~/.backups/" (file-name-nondirectory FILE)))

Mkdir ~.backups. Emacs will then put all backup files (*~) in this directory.

I installed a cron job to keep .backups from becomming huge.

Bob

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