Subject: Re: Bug opening folders in subdirectories ? (fwd)

From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 14:08:17 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Edan Idzerda wrote:

> Yes,
> 
> 	% pine -c 0 -f $PWD/folder
> 
> works, but that seems like a pain.  I think a better behavior would
> be to assume '-c 0' when foldernames starts with '/' or "./" so that
> I don't have to type as much.  :)

Remember that the folder collection contexts can specify remote IMAP
servers as well as local filesystem paths. The -c flag is needed to
over-ride the default context, otherwise Pine would not know whether you
are referring to /foo/bar on the IMAP server or /foo/bar on the local
host.

A more reasonable criticism would be that in the case of a local default
context, a path beginning with / should successfully break out of the
context without needing the -c 0...  And we would agree, but it turns out
that there is a bug in that case.

-teg