Subject: bug: tenex folders & folder indices

From: [email-masked] (Thomas Roessler)
Date: 22 Nov 1996 21:45:18 GMT

In one of the discussions here, Pine development people suggested to
use the tenex format for big incoming mail folders.  To check things
out, I created a ~/mail.txt file; pine immediately started to make it
a tenex format incoming folder.

Things seemed to work fine - but there is one problem: I have my
messages sorted by the date they were *sent*.  Now, pine doesn't seem
to keep incoming folder's index display in sync with the messages, so
if I try to display message A, I am presented with message B, while
message A will show up one or more times at different points of the
folder index, with still other messages hiding behind it.

I'd consider this a serious problem, since I'm almost certain that
I've been deleting mails I didn't want to delete due to this.  I've
returned to the traditional unix-style folder whose handling doesn't
seem to have this »feature«..

While we are on it: There seems to be a small but annoying bug in the
MIME display code.  While displaying a text attachment, pine will show
it properly when I scroll by hitting the space bar.  But when I use
the cursor keys to move downward in the message, an empty line is
being inserted between every two lines of text.

tlr
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Thomas Roessler                  	  http://home.pages.de/~roessler/

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 17:25:18 -0800

Please be assured that this problem -- if it's really happening -- is in
no way caused by tenex format.  Sorting is done entirely within the Pine
main program and the lower-level tenex code has nothing to do with it.
The interface between tenex and the main program is identical to the
interface between standard UNIX format and the main program; and at this
level there is no such thing as "sorting".

I have heard rumors of sorting problems, but since it's in another
programmer's area I don't know the details.

Please report as many details of the problem as you can to
[email-masked].

On 22 Nov 1996, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> seem to have this »æeature.

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