Subject: read-only address book

From: Elijah Manor <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 1997 22:04:18 -0500 (CDT)

i ran into a strange problem the other day.  a friend of mine has a
read-only address book.  it hasnt always been that way.  he didnt have any
other instances of pine open & i checked the read/write/exe/del protection
on his address_book.  everything seemed to check out fine.  we ftp'ed
another address_book and replaced his old one just to see if we could fix
the problem, but to no avail.  his address book has been read-only since
then.  nothing else seems to be read-only, just his address book.  i told
him i would try to find out howto fix his problem. he is using pine 3.95
on vms.  thnx, -vic-

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 05 Oct 1997 04:58:22 +0200

>> "EM" == Elijah Manor <[email-masked]> writes:

   man chmod

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Robin S. Socha M.A.
Political Science Dept., Bonn University 
main(){printf(&unix["\021%six\012\0"],(unix)["have"]+"fun"-0x60);}

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From: Shawn Jeffries <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 18:47:35 -0400 (EDT)

On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Elijah Manor wrote:

>him i would try to find out how to fix his problem. he is using pine 3.95
>on vms.  thnx, -vic-

make sure you don't have the name of your addressbook file in the
setup-config menu under the line :

global-address-book      = <Value>  (putting it here make it read-only)

but instead, it should be input on the line :

address-book             = <Value>  

    Shawn M. Jeffries
    [email-masked]