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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Re: Same Evolution - different users

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:06:18AM -0400, William Case wrote:

> I tried your suggestion.  My /home/user1/.Xauthority file only opens
> in emacs and its empty.  .Xauthority doesn't currently exit in
> user2.  Man has no explantion of .Xauthority.

It's a binary file; don't open it in Emacs.  Have you looked at
the output of

        ls -l /home/user1/.Xauthority

to see if it's empty (file size of zero)?  I don't know how Emacs
handles binary files, since I don't use it or have it installed.

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