Subject: Re: .addressbook

From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 14:20:33 -0700 (PDT)

On Thu, 11 Apr 1996, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, Hasan T. Kosebalaban wrote:
> 
> > I would like to ask the following questions:
> > 1. I was using PC-Pine 3.91 and had an addressbook under it. When I
> > changed it to 3.92 I cannot use the previous addressbook. Is there a way
> > to use the same file under 3.92?
> 
> hubert> Sorry, we broke it in 3.92 Pine.  It will be fixed in 3.93 which we
> hubert> hope will be out this month.
> 
> Any chance of getting a patch to 3.92 to get us by?

Sorry, my answer was incomplete.  It should be working sub-optimally as it
is now.  It should try to build an addrbook.lu file in a temporary
directory every time you use pine, and that should work.  The test for dot
in the name was dumb and wrong, and that will be fixed in 3.93.  3.93
should be released real soon so no need for a patch to get you by.  Thanks
for your interest.

Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle

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From: Gregory Neil Shapiro <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 17:25:30 -0400 (EDT)

hubert> Sorry, my answer was incomplete.  It should be working
hubert> sub-optimally as it is now.  It should try to build an addrbook.lu
hubert> file in a temporary directory every time you use pine, and that
hubert> should work.  The test for dot in the name was dumb and wrong, and
hubert> that will be fixed in 3.93.  3.93 should be released real soon so
hubert> no need for a patch to get you by.  Thanks for your interest.

This isn't the case here, subsequent runs of pine, even after rebuilding
the .addressbook.lu file with 3.93, exhibit problems.

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 14:49:15 -0700 (PDT)

> the .addressbook.lu file with 3.93, exhibit problems.

It's unlikely that you've used 3.93 to rebuild .addressbook.lu since it
hasn't been released yet.  You probably meant 3.92.  There are definitely
some bugs in 3.92 and we hope we've fixed them in 3.93.  However, I'm
interested in understanding what kind of problems you're having, in case
it's something that hasn't been fixed.  I've lost the original message in
this thread.  My memory was that we were talking about the "don't use dot
in addrbook name" problem on PC-Pine or Windows Pine, but your problem
sounds like something else.  If you could send me a description (probably
after removing the list from the cc's to spare others) I would be
grateful.  Thanks.