Subject: changes in .lu files with 3.95

From: [email-masked] (Zachary H Leber)
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 13:59:03 GMT

I am experimenting with Pine 3.95 and when I switch back and forth 
between 3.91 and 3.95 my addressbook.lu file keeps getting rewritten, 
with pine saying the format is invalid.  Is there a change?  I am using 
public addressbooks so this is a problem.

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 11:26:09 +0100 (BST)

Yes, the format has indeed changed and the .lu files are rebuilt when
versions are switched.

Decide on which version currently is most used at your site and build .lu
files for it, then leave the remainder to rely on Pine's automatic
temporary rebuilding (whose effect only lasts the session).

Alternatively configure the different versions of Pine to use different
shared addressbooks (which will each have their own .lu file in the
appropriate format).  This relies on you being able to persuade your Pine
to either startup using a different .pinerc and/or pine.conf file (check
the man page: I think the command line option is something like "-p" or
"-P") or, like we do here, tweak the name of the systemwide pine.conf file
it uses to include a vesion number.  (For example we have had
pine.conf-3.91, pine.conf-3.93, etc) 

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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