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Re: Pine doesn't seem to work consistently on linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Leon)
Fri Mar 13 23:25:26 2009
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:24:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Christopher Leon <ccleon@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
cc: linerva@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <49BB18DA.7020204@mit.edu>
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Hi Evan,
OK, I just did that.
The funny thing with this error is that I don't know how to reproduce
it. For example, as I'm writing this e-mail, I keep getting a message that
says:
"Cannot open file for writing: Permission denied"
And, sometimes, I notice if I open and close pine, it will give me a
message telling me to press E to exit this greeting...it's the message
that shows up in pine when you first use it.
And sometimes, if I write e-mails for a while, it will say something like
it can't read some file. I think it's the .pinerc file, but I haven't been
observant enough to remember what exactlly happens.
Chris
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Evan Broder wrote:
> Hi Chris -
> alpine is a complete rewrite of pine, but is released under a more
> generally acceptable license, which has caused it to be incorporated
> into recently Debian and Ubuntu distributions. It should largely be a
> drop-in replacement for pine.
>
> We have heard a few reports of issues, though. Would you mind letting us
> read your pine settings file to see if there are any indications of the
> problem in there? You can do that by running:
>
> mv ~/.pinerc ~/Public/pinerc
> ln -s ~/Public/pinerc ~/.pinerc
>
> That should let you hold on to your customizations while allowing us to
> see the file.
>
> Thanks,
> - Evan
>
> Christopher Chih-Wan Loo Leon wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I use pine frequently. I noticed since the recent upgrade, that I
>> would get some weird permission denied error in pine. And that
>> sometimes, my profile for pine seems to disappear when I am writing
>> e-mail. Is this a feature of the new system? I notice that it's
>> "alpine" and not "pine" anymore too...
>> Chris
>
