Subject: Re: pine -f foldername

From: Roman Czyborra <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 1994 22:20:21 +0100

> I also find the pine -f folder option irritating since I would like
> pine to read archival mail and news which is stored on a scratch
> disk.

I do like the pine -f folder behavior.  I use pine -f $PWD/folder for
reading mailboxes in the current directory.  pine -f ./folder would be
nicer.  The use-current-dir option doesn't enable it, either.

> pine -f -folder could default to reading the file folder in
> the current directory. This seems logical.

Perhaps it could search both places.

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From: [email-masked] (Richard McMahon)
Date: 1 Nov 1994 10:25:38 GMT

I also find the pine -f folder option irritating since I
would like pine to read archival mail and news which is stored on a 
scratch disk. 

For this purpose I cd to the relevant directory and use elm -f 
folder.

Standard mail and elm  follows the rules

     -f [filename] Read messages from filename instead of  system
                   mailbox.   If  no  filename  is specified, the
                   mbox is used.

     -f +folder    Use the file folder in  the  folder  directory
                   (same  as  the  folder  command).  The name of
                   this directory is listed in the  folder  vari-
                   able.

Since pine may not want to revert to this, maybe