Subject: Re: My pinerc

From: "Heinrich `Hank' Goetzger" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 19:16:31 -0800

Hey Leuts!

On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Paul O Bartlett wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Mark Allen wrote:
> > Ximena Cearley wrote:
> > > Why doesn't Pine save a copy of an interrrupted composition? I've lost
> > > another long letter because someone picked up the phone, [etc.]
> 
> [...]
> 
> will have the same capability.)  When something happens to interrupt my
> session, Un*x has the good grace to send JOE a signal before blowing
> everything away, and JOE writes out the workspace to my current
> directory under a reserved filename, preserving my work until I can get
> logged back in a recover things.
 
Couldn't this be a proposal for a further release for the
pine/pico-development-team to take care about unexpected systemcrashs in
pico, so that I don't need to change the editor? 
 
Heinrich

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 15:36:58 GMT

> >Now wait a minute! If for any reason a message I'm composing with pico gets
> >interrupted, (and I just tested this by killing a telnet to a remote machine
> >mid message), pine (pico?) saves a file called .pine-interrupted-mail in my
> >home directory. 

Cool!  Does anyone know if the MS Windows version of pico does
this?  Also, how does pico behave when it's being run as a
standalone program and it's interrupted -- does it auto save the
msg?  A couple suggestions:

 * Have pine send an email message telling the user about
   .pine-interrupted-mail whenever it's created.  This is
   what vi does.

 * Rename .pine-interrupted-mail to .pine-interrupted-msg (or
   .pico-interrupted-msg) since you might be in the midst of 
   composing a news article rather than a mail message.  This
   might help convert people to thinking of Pine as an Internet
   News and Email user agent rather than just an MUA!

Thanks,
Nancy

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 17:15:24 -0500

On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Mark Allen wrote:

> Anybody have an answer for Ximena? Thanks in advance for your help!
> 
> Ximena Cearley wrote:

    There are some unanswered questions here as to the nature of the
configuration, but I will respond that I do not have this problem, and
I, too, get interrupted sessions from time to time (hangs, glitches in
local power supply that knocksdown my PC, whatever).  I think the
secret to my success is that I do NOT use the Pine built-in composer.

    I use my PC to dial in to a Un*x shell account, where Pine runs. 
In my personal Pine configuration, I have specified an alternate
editor.  (In my case it is an editor called JOE, but other good editors
will have the same capability.)  When something happens to interrupt my
session, Un*x has the good grace to send JOE a signal before blowing
everything away, and JOE writes out the workspace to my current
directory under a reserved filename, preserving my work until I can get
logged back in a recover things.

    Just what Ximena Cearley's configuration is we are not told, but
using a more sophisticated editor may provide recovery capability.

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From: [email-masked] (Sylvain Robitaille)
Date: 7 Mar 1997 05:55:31 GMT

On Mon, 3 Mar 1997 22:24:49 -0800,
Heinrich 'Hank' Goetzger <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>>I wonder if a setting such as quell-dead-letter-on-cancel will affect this.
>>It's the only one that I see that might. Possibly it's set in the user's
>>.pinerc, or the system's global pine config file.
>
>But here I've to invent, this setting is only to take care about the
>behavior when you cancel a mesage.
>Help-Screen-copy:
>
    [deleted section quoted from Pine configuration help screen]
>Hope it's all clear now.

I *knew* THAT! I was simply indicating that I can't find any other options
that might affect the situation that was described in the original post. I
figured it might be a side-effect of the quell-dead-letter... setting.

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