Re: emacs changed file's own user and file permission

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Xah Lee <xah@xahlee.org>
> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:18:46 -0800 (PST)
> 
> i just tried it and the file is backed up as for example:
> !Users!xah!web!emacs!xah_emacs_google_earth.el~

That's on MS-Windows, I presume.

> i think this is not a robust solution because in principle the file
> name length would quickly reach its limit.

What limit?  What do you think is the limit of a file-name length on
your system?  (And what system is that?)