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vax 7.4H: "Unknown error" when saving if over quota

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tmgreen@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Fri Aug 27 09:01:36 1993

From: tmgreen@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 93 09:01:18 EDT

System name:		sum4
Type and version:	CVAXSTAR 7.4H
Display type:		SM

What were you trying to do?

Save a file in emacs

What's wrong:

I tried to save a file from emacs and I got the error:

"Opening output file: undocumented error code, /afs/athena/....(myfile)"

Not only did it fail to write the file, but it ERASED it from disk.
I then tried to write (\C-X-\C-W) the buffer as another file name and
got the same error.

I tried to do the same with another buffer and the file got ERASED,
too.  This buffer was my ENTIRE THESIS, which was pretty distressing.
Then, as a last resort, I tried writing the file into another locker
that I had attached and it worked.  

I finally figured out by logging in to another workstation that I was
slightly over my disk quota.  

(a) why couldn't it tell me this?
(b) why did it delete my instead of just refuse to save it?






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