Re: Gnumeric file went south.

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow math concordia ab ca>]

Zbigniew Chyla wrote:

> On Wed, 2001-06-13 at 15:11:15, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
>
> > Rather than a prefix why don't you use a postfix along the lines of 
> > myfile.gnumeric~
>
>
> It doesn't matter much, the file will be renamed in a few milliseconds :-)

Unless something fails...  

We all know that there really aren't any core files on any machine  ;-)

If the whole point is to protect against failures then it should be 
assumed that those failures may happen in which case some files may 
occasionally remain. Backup programs shouldn't back-up those error files 
and therefore a standard indicator should be used. (Of course 
.#myfile.gnumeric# would be another possibility but I prefer visible files.)

Andreas

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