Subject: ~/.addressbook.lu

From: "J.Y.E. Tse" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 21:54:10 GMT

Hi Pine users,
  I'm on UNIX and in my $HOME directory I have the file
"~/.addressbook.lu", which contains just a lot of numbers.
  Does anyone know what these numbers are for? Can I safely delete this
file?
  Thanks for any help.

J.Y.E.

---

From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 17:42:18 +0800 (GMT)

>   Does anyone know what these numbers are for? Can I safely delete this

	You can delete it....but pine will just recreate it.

	It is a "hash" of the .addressbook file.  Pine uses it to speed
things up.

	Its not such a huge file that deleting it will free up so much
space.  So, just leave it be.

	Ed

-- 
Edward M. Greshko                  Technical Manager, Electronic Commerce
                                   Control Data Asia/Pacific Region
Voice: +886-2-715-2222 x287        6/F, 131 Nanking East Road, Section 3
FAX  : +886-2-712-9197             Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C

---

From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 10:43:09 +0100 (BST)

The ".addressbook.lu" file is the "quick lookup file" associated with your
address book.

Assuming you are going to continue using Pine and its addressbook leave
this lookup file in place (otherwise Pine will just recreate it next time
it is run, slowing you down a little).

Cheers,

-- 
Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Computing Service, University of York, Heslington, York, YO1 5DD, UK
Tel: +44-1904-433811  FAX: +44-1904-433740  http://www.york.ac.uk/~pmb1/