Subject: Using exceptions in 4.55 (Solaris)

From: Birl <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 13:39:31 -0400 (EDT)

Has anyone use the exceptions "toggle"?
(M)ain --> (S)etup --> e(X)ception

When I initially tried it, the status bar mentioned:
[Need argument "-x <except_config>" or ".pinercex" file to use eXceptions]

So I cp'ed my .pinerc to .pinercex
My configuration screen listed all the areas (options) that were overriden
by the exceptions file.  I pico'ed .pinercex to removed all lines that had
nothing to do with color.

My .pinerc file had forced 8-bit color enabled, the .pinercex file had
color disabled.  The exceptions re-wrote my preferences and removed the
color from .pinerc

Here's my question:  How is exceptions supposed to work?
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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 15:58:13 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

> So I cp'ed my .pinerc to .pinercex

It's probably easier to start out by creating an empty .pinercex instead
of copying values into it, because you want to add exceptions to the
regular config. Hopefully you should end up with only a small number of
exceptions. So remove "rm .pinercex" and then "touch .pinercex". Now try
Setup/eXceptions/Config.

Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle