Subject: I need some help...

From: Julio Hernandez <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 15:59:34 -0500 (CDT)

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Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 15:53:56 -0500 (CDT)
From: Julio Hernandez <[email-masked]>
To: Pine Developers <[email-masked]>
Subject: I need some help...

Hi. I'm writting you this mail because I have a little problem. My INBOX
folder is READONLY, I don't know why. Two days ago I had some problems
with a computer, so I decided to move to another. I was Taking an address
when the problems bagan. I couldn't do anything else, so I start another
computer and opened Pine. So, I had the same screen in two computers.
Then, I just turned off the first one. I continued working normally on the
other. Yesterday I came to check my email and it then I tried to delete
some emails from the INBOX folder, and then I realized that it was now a
READONLY folder. Today I tried to delete them again, but it remains
readonly. Before yesterday, i had never had this problem, there was no
problem with the delete command nor the INBOX. I looked out at the "HELP",
but I could not find anything that tells me how to fix it up. Please help
me, the INBOX folder is getting filled up.
							Thanks
							Julio Hernandez

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 01 Oct 1997 23:21:42 +0200

>> "JH" == Julio Hernandez <[email-masked]> writes: 

JH> My INBOX folder is READONLY, I don't know why. 

Because pine has created a lock on your inbox when you started a
second session of pine. Say:

       ps ax | grep pine

and then kill the processes. Alternately, say "jobs" and get the ones
you don't need into the foreground (fg). "man bash" will reveal all
about those two commands. To learn more about pine's lockfiles, go
here:
    
http://franck.pc.uni-koeln.de/~robin/user.guide/node74.html

Cheers,
Robin

-- 
Robin S. Socha, M.A.
Political Science Dept., Bonn University 
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