Subject: Folder collections on a vfat partition

From: Florian Fell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 12:21:22 +0200

Hallo,

when I try to run pine on my system under win95 and linux using the same
local folder collection, I have to put this collection on the
vfat-partition, because win95 cannot read ext2-Partitions.
But when I do so, Pine is not able to write to this folder collection on
"dos_c", although the user has all rights (umask=000 mounting dos_c) and
editing or deleting a file on dos_c is no problem.

Thank you for an idea!
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Florian Fell                       D-80801 Muenchen               
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From: "Robert de Bath" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 14:00:43 +0100 (BST)

>From the tech-notes (3.95q):

   PC-Pine reads and writes local (PC) folders in a special format
   similar to the Tenex format. Near as we can tell, PC-Pine is the only
   program to use this format. Beginning with version 3.90, PC-Pine
   includes a Read-Only driver for the Berkeley mailbox format in
   addition. That means that you can import Unix mail folders, or mount
   them via NFS or SMB, and PC-Pine can read them --but not modify them.

IOW they've fucked up again, perhaps it's fixed in 3.96 or 4.*
I'm not holding my breath, they'll tell you to run an IMAP server
on the UNIX box for PC-Pine to connect to. <sic>

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Rob.                           (Robert de Bath <http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>)