Date: 9 January 1984 23:21 est
From: David A. Moon <Moon at SCRC-TENEX>
It could perhaps do
saving "in the background", but that would be more difficult and also presents
the possibility of getting an inconsistent snapshot of the file if you are
editing while it's saving.
How about making a temporary copy of the buffer, and then writing this
out to the autosave file in background?