Subject: Sharing Pine & PC-Pine?

From: James <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 14:05:03 -0800 (PST)

I have both Linux and Windoze installed on my machine, and would like to
have both access the same mail files, so that I won't have to quit Linux
to look at the mail I received while I was running Windoze, or vice
versa.

In Linux, I've mounted the Windoze partition as /f, so in the .pinerc
file I set "folder-collections=Mail f:\home\mail\[*.mtx]".  Now from
Pine, I can do an "L" command, and see the list of folders in the mail
directory.  However, when I try to open one of them, more often than not
Pine simply stalls in the open.  (But strangely enough, not on every
one: I can open one or two of the dozen or so.)

Has anyone done this before, or have ideas as to what might be going on?
I'm using 4.21 on both systems.

Thanks,
James

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From: "Daniel Sands" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 08:50:38 -0700

???
You are telling Linux Pine to look at "f:\home\mail\[*.mtx]"?!?!?
Linux doesn't parse DOS paths.  You should instead set it to
"/f/home/mail/[*.mtx]".

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From: James <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 18:54:35 -0800 (PST)

> Linux doesn't parse DOS paths.  You should instead set it to

Sorry, that was a typo.  I should have said that in the PC-Pine pinerc
file, it's set to "f:\home\mail\[*.mtx]", while in the Linux .pinerc
file, the same variable is set to "/f/home/mail/[*.mtx]", with the
Windoze F: partition mounted as /f.

James

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 12:39:40 +0000 (GMT)

> one: I can open one or two of the dozen or so.)

I don't have a dual boot machine but it's something I want to do
one of these days so I'm very curious about this too. If I were
you, here's what I'd try. First make sure that both PC-Pine and
Linux Pine are the latest version (4.33). Then replicate one of
the folders that you can open on both systems; call the replicant
Good (there is no need to use an extension like .MTX so don't).
Now in PC-Pine open one of the folders that cannot be opened in
Linux Pine. Select all the messages in the folder and save them
to the folder named Good using:

 ; A A S Good

Now check that you can open and read Good in PC-Pine. Next reboot
into Linux and start Linux Pine and see if Good can be read by
Linux Pine.  If it can, then you have a procedure for converting
the "Bad"  folders to Good folders.

Let us know what happens,
Nancy
Infinite Ink
http://www.ii.com