Subject: Multiple .pinerc's spawned

From: "Colin J. Raven" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 15:29:05 -0800 (PST)

Hey Ed? Robin?
I found something odd that might attract your interest;
Running Pine under AIX4.0, for no (known) reason, each time I invoke Pine,
it spawns four pinerc's (not dot pinerc's) and with a letter following,
then a five digit number.
I stopped the problem (though I wish I really knew how) but wodered if you
had ever seen/heard of Pine doing this.
Like I said, it's gone away and I didn't follow any methodical
troubleshooting method, just "thrashed around" in the users' home
directory until Pine worked, and the spawning of pinerc's quit.
Not the most scientific solution I know...any suggestions?
-Colin

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From: "Colin J. Raven" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 15:33:35 -0800 (PST)

Oh yes, it's Pine 3.96 (like that makes any difference)...
Oh and to all that say 3.96 has anything "wrong" with it...it doesn't! :)
But...that's just my .02 cents' worth!
-Colin

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 04 Jan 1998 02:00:12 +0100

>> "CJR" == Colin J Raven <[email-masked]> writes:

CJR> Hey Ed? Robin?

Here, here!

CJR> I found something odd that might attract your interest; Running Pine
CJR> under AIX4.0, for no (known) reason, each time I invoke Pine
CJR> [...]

Well, you gave the answer yourself. I don't know of any reason why one 
should run Pine und AIX. Install Linux. Problem solved. KeWL, huh?

Cheers,
Robin

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

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From: "Colin J. Raven" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 20:45:16 -0800 (PST)

Hi All!
Y'Know, we never did address Pine's odd behavior in suddenly spawning
multiple pinerc's.
As I mentioned before, any suggestions as to how thos peculiar behavior
began would be welcome.
-Colin

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:43:02 -0800 (PST)

> then a five digit number.

Those are the temp files that Pine writes when updating your .pinerc
file.  If an error occurs during the write (e.g. out of disk space) 
the temp file is abandoned, otherwise it is renamed to .pinerc... 

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