Subject: help?

From: Shirin Ali <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 20:17:39 -0400 (EDT)

Dear sir or madam,
	How do i change my folder from being a readonly folder to one
where i can delete messages from? I somehow managed to mark two folders
read only's and i can't figure out how to remedy this.  
						thanks,
						Shirin Ali

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 08:54:11 +0200 (CEST)

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On Wed, 28 May 1997, Shirin Ali wrote:

Hi, Shirin,

  >	How do i change my folder from being a readonly folder to one where
  >i can delete messages from? I somehow managed to mark two folders read
  >only's and i can't figure out how to remedy this.

Very funny :-) I like the "somehow" part best ;-)

Ok, seriously now:

If you're on a u*ix system, the following command will do:

	chmod u+r <filename>

but I don't think that's your problem. Could there be an error message
saying: "folder is readonly because another pine session is locking xy"?
(Haven't seen that in months, so don't flame me if I got the words all
wrong). Then you'd need to close all pine sessions (when all else fails,
"killall pine" will do the trick) and restart *one*.

HTH,
Robin	

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From: Sean Witham <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 17:28:11 +0100 (BST)

> If you're on a u*ix system, the following command will do:

I think you ment:

	chmod u+w <filename>

--Sean