Subject: pinerc problems

From: [email-masked] (Sweth Chandramouli)
Date: 19 Feb 1997 12:02:46 -0500

i'm running unix pine 3.89 here at gwu, where they recently
installed pine 3.93 and then 3.95.  since upgrading to 3.9x, however, the
powers-that-be have set as unchangeable all of the settings that used to
be changeable from inside the .pinerc, which is why i am still using the
old version.  i recently noticed, however, that the personal-name for all
of the mail in my sent-mail folder is the same, even though i know that
many of the letters were sent after changing that setting in the .pinerc;
furthermore, they were all sent not as the default to which the sysadmins
here have set pine 3.9x (which i would have understood) but instead the
nickname that i was using when the switch occurred
	i went back and checked, and sure enough, no matter what i do to
that field in the .pinerc, running any of the versions of pine installed
here automatically resets the personal-name variable back to that old
setting.  is there any other file in which pine might store something like
that, and use to update the .pinerc?  or can anyone think of any other
potential causes of this problem?

	(replies e-mailed to [email-masked] or [email-masked]
in addition to being posted would be appreciated.)

	ineffectively .pinerc-ing,
	sweth.

<[email-masked]>  because sometimes chutzpah doesn't cut it.
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