Subject: How to force folder to be in specific format?

From: Andrej Borsenkow <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 11:05:15 +0400 (MOW)

Hi, pine users!

Is it possible to force a folder to be in a specific format? What I mean
is following:

  the Pine include long list of mailbox drivers for different formats.
  No suppose I go in folder menu and create new folder. How can I say,
  that I want this folder to be in, e.g., TENEX format instead of
  mbox?

  The same question if I S)ave or Fcc message - is it possible to force
  new folder to be in specific format?

thanks in advance

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 01:50:47 -0700

>   new folder to be in specific format?

There is no way to do this in Pine, although it can be done in the
low-level libraries used by Pine.  Other than the INBOX, there is no
general way to force alternate formats from Pine.

We recommend that, if you want to change the default folder format, that
you edit the c-client Makefile to set STDPROTO to something else (e.g.
tenexproto) and then rebuild Pine.

-- Mark --

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From: Vladimír Solnický {Vladimir Solnicky} <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 13:59:06 +0200 (METDST)

> tenexproto) and then rebuild Pine.

A long time ago someone mailed a sulution that works for me (Pine 9.93)
without recompiling:

Make a file named .mminit in your home directory and put a following line
into it:

set empty-folder-format tenex

It sholud cjange the behaviour of the low-level libraries used by pine.
Hope it helps. 

V. S.

Vladimír Solnický, ÚTIA AV ČR, Pod vodárenskou věží 4,
182 08 Praha 8-Libeň, +42 2 6605/2364, telefax: +42 2 6884677,
[email-masked], http://www.utia.cas.cz/user_data/vs/vs-home-cz.html

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 10:53:59 -0700 (PDT)

On Mon, 10 Jun 1996 13:59:06 +0200 (METDST), =?ISO-8859-
> It sholud cjange the behaviour of the low-level libraries used by pine.

This particular technique works in Pine 3.93, but it is undocumented and it
probably will not work in future versions of Pine.  I recommend strongly
against relying upon it.