Subject: Pine doesn't like . folder names

From: [email-masked] (Simcha Lerner)
Date: 1 Jul 1994 18:52:10 GMT

Since I use pine (3.89 on sun) on the same system that I use Sun's 
mailtool, I set up default-fcc to ".record" (used by mailtool).

I don't mind that lack of .record from the list of folders (this is
a feature as far as I am concerned, since I can jump to and read
the folder without any problem).  On the other hand, this folder name
breaks sending mail from compose. 

When I try to send the message (^X), I am told:

           Folder ".record" doesn't exist.  Create? (y/n/^C) [y]:

If I say no, pine complains that the fcc was rejected.  If I say 
yes, I complains that it couldn't create it since it already exists.

In any case, I can't send the message unless I change the fcc field.

Thanks.

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Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 1 Jul 1994 19:46:59 GMT

>           Folder ".record" doesn't exist.  Create? (y/n/^C) [y]:

A few minutes ago, I had the same problem for the first time.
It didn't do it for the next mail I sent out, though.  It would seem to 
be an intermittant problem.

Any clues?

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Matt Hewn <[email-masked]>
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Information is not knowledge; knowledge is not wisdom; wisdom is not truth.
Truth is absolute.

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From: [email-masked] (Evelyn Albrecht)
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 1994 21:08:03 GMT

David L Miller <[email-masked]> writes:

>This is a known problem.  In the interim, try making a symbolic link from
>sent-mail to .record... 

>|\ |  |\/|  David L. Miller    [email-masked]  (206) 685-6240
>|/ |_ |  |  Software Engineer, Pine Development Team   (206) 685-4045 (FAX)
>University of Washington, Networks & Distributed Computing, JE-20
>4545 15th Ave NE, Seattle WA 98105, USA

>On 1 Jul 1994, Simcha Lerner wrote:

  [ Rest of message eliminated.]

  This was a perfect example of why I prefer the original message to come
1st.  Being at a site close to the U. of W. I almost always get David's
prompt responses before I see the original post, and in this case, as in
others, the reply didn't make sense until I'd read the question, by which
time I'd forgotten the reply, so had to go back up to it.  Somehow that
seems like *lots* more work than using ^V to skim past material I don't
need to see when the original message comes 1st.  

   I'll certainly 2nd the comments that David's replies are excellent.

Evelyn
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|Evelyn Albrecht                      Ph:  (206) 650-3239                 |
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|Western Washington Univ.                                                 |
|Bellingham, WA  98225-9094                                               |

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 1994 13:26:46 -0700 (PDT)