Subject: interrupted composition

From: Ovanes Manucharyan <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 17:42:04 -0700

Our users are reporting problems with pine 3.96's interrupted
composition feature.....
We are running pine on HP UX 10.20 operating system

Sometimes the feature works, yet other times it doesn't work.

After a system hickup(reboot), our users complain that their interrupted
compositions
are not there anymore. I suspect this is because the /tmp directory got
cleaned.
Am I right?

What about during other times... Why doesn't this feature work
consistently...

Users are dialing over modem.

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From: Scott Leibrand <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 19:25:51 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

I noticed that with Pine 4.05 we had some similar problems with
interrupted messages here at the UW.  The machines we're running Pine on
are only rebooted when they freeze, which occurs very seldom, so I don't
know about the reboot thing you're experiencing.  What did seem to be
happening was that if a user was connected via telnet composing a message
and was disconnected (either because the modem lost its connection or if
we purposefully closed the telnet program), Pine would only write the
interrupted message file some of the time.  (The interrupted message file,
whose name I don't remember, was stored by default in the user's home
directory.)  What I noticed was that if the message was bigger than about
3-4 k (as measured by the size of the interrupted-message file), it
wouldn't save it.  If this is similar to what you're experiencing, I may
be able to find out from our Pine people what the problem was.  In any
event, upgrading to Pine 4.10 fixed it.

Hope that sheds some light on your problem...
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