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Matt Cobley
Feb 28, 1999, 3:00:00 AM2/28/99
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Hi,
I have a machine running RedHat5.2 (Pine 4.04) and Win95 (PC-Pine
4.05). I want to share my folders between the two OS's. I have mounted
my win95 drive and setup the mail directory in my home linux directory
as a symbolic link to the win95 dir of the same name. This seemed to
work. I can see all of the folders in both OS's. The problem comes when
I try to access folders. Some folders I can access fine, but others,
when I try to open them, pine just sits there for a while spinning its
little thing around, then tells me that the folder I'm trying to open
has a lock on it which will be overridden in xxx seconds. When this
counts down, then it doesn't show any of the messages in that file,
although they are actually still there. The same problem occurred when
trying to write to the sent-mail folder that Linux pine created on the
win95 disk, only in this case, once the lock is overridden, the sent
messages DO appear. It seems to me that the folders that DO work
properly are the ones created using PC-Pine and the ones that don't
originated on some version of Linux pine. Does anyone have any idea
about what's going on here and how I can fix it?
--
ttfn
I have a machine running RedHat5.2 (Pine 4.04) and Win95 (PC-Pine
4.05). I want to share my folders between the two OS's. I have mounted
my win95 drive and setup the mail directory in my home linux directory
as a symbolic link to the win95 dir of the same name. This seemed to
work. I can see all of the folders in both OS's. The problem comes when
I try to access folders. Some folders I can access fine, but others,
when I try to open them, pine just sits there for a while spinning its
little thing around, then tells me that the folder I'm trying to open
has a lock on it which will be overridden in xxx seconds. When this
counts down, then it doesn't show any of the messages in that file,
although they are actually still there. The same problem occurred when
trying to write to the sent-mail folder that Linux pine created on the
win95 disk, only in this case, once the lock is overridden, the sent
messages DO appear. It seems to me that the folders that DO work
properly are the ones created using PC-Pine and the ones that don't
originated on some version of Linux pine. Does anyone have any idea
about what's going on here and how I can fix it?
--
ttfn
Matt
Matt Cobley
Mar 1, 1999, 3:00:00 AM3/1/99
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OK,
I wasn't very clear in my last post, too much detail. What I
essentially want to know is why does pine have to relinquish a folder lock
that doesn't exist on a folder that lives on a vfat drive under linux and
how to get around it. Please help, this is bugging the hell out of me...
--
ttfn
I wasn't very clear in my last post, too much detail. What I
essentially want to know is why does pine have to relinquish a folder lock
that doesn't exist on a folder that lives on a vfat drive under linux and
how to get around it. Please help, this is bugging the hell out of me...
--
ttfn
Matt
Tom Sullivan
Mar 2, 1999, 3:00:00 AM3/2/99
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Hi,
I was trying to do this very thing, but I never could get Unix pine
to see the folders on the vfat file system. I tried and tried, and
finally gave up. If you find out how to do it, please let me know
I was trying to do this very thing, but I never could get Unix pine
to see the folders on the vfat file system. I tried and tried, and
finally gave up. If you find out how to do it, please let me know
Tom
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