What is a *.CKP file?

Tue May 14 23:18:40 AEST 1985

> turtlevax!ken asks:
> Recent discussion on USENET revealed the purpose (or at least the destiny)
> of the #* files.  But what are the *.CKP files used for?  And what does CKP
> stand for?

These are checkpoint files created by the emacs editor.
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