Subject: Bug (ID S80WL): Error whilst opening folders. (fwd)

From: Anuj Agrawal <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 13:10:49 -0600 (CST)

Hi,
   i've read the FAQ on Folder Problems and it seems that my problem 
could be related to the folder lock deal, but i'm not sure.
   We have a number of UNIX boxes in our department. Recently we added 2 
more Alpha machines, and we've always been using a common file sharing 
system. On the older machines, Pine 3.91 works like a whiz. But with the 
newer machines, no configuration changes have been made, but everytime we 
Goto a Folder, it would give the following error above the 2 rows of 
Commands at the bottom of the screen:

[Error creating /users/a/anuja/unix/mail/foldername.lock: I/O error]

Although it doesn't lose any mail, and does the saving and moving of 
mails to the folders properly, but the error is worrisome. This has 
happened to any user who tries to use Pine, not just me. We've checked to 
ensure that no other Pine session was open.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Anuj.

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From: William McQueen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 10:46:08 -0500 (EST)

>From time to time, I acquire too many messages in a specific folder to 
read in a manageable period of time. Or, I may want to accumulate a large 
number of messages from a specific discussion group.

Of course most sites have limited disk space and ask users to maintain 
small numbers of messages in the message base.

Ideally, it would make sense to offload the incoming messages to my local 
PC at home, and read them off-line. However, as I recall there is no 
current system for PINE for off-line reading.

However, should I want to preserve a batch of incoming messages in a pine
readable format (not ASCII text files), is there an appropriate way for
compressing the raw message data for a specific folder with high traffic
in order to reduce the amount of disk space consumed when large quantities
of messages accumulate? 

Any suggestions? Thanks very much.

Bye for now,

Bill McQueen in Toronto
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