[2337] in Athena Bugs
zero length file bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (don@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Jun 6 18:33:51 1989
From: <don@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 89 18:33:29 EDT
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bgardner@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, rfrench@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
this one scared the hell out of me, so i asked brian how it ended up.
turns out that he was over quota, and jis' message in emacs was warning
him that the written file didn't match the buffer; he was supposed to
have a zero-length file. the message should be changed, to more precisely
describe what is happening: "saved file has length zero," or,
"save was unsuccessful;" y'know, something vague and cryptic, more like unix.
-don
