Re: Strange behaviour in SMPmW118 Mailer

Christer Jacobsson wrote:
> If She's gonna create a totally new profile and place the Mail and
> newsgroups there, She would place the new profile, Mail and News on Her
> FAT32 partition so they could be accessed by the W*nStupid version of SM
>   if something just can't be done by the OS/2 version. Sharing
> bookmarks, History, Passwords, Mail and News on a FAT32 partition might
> also allow a linux version of SM to access this data, too: as She
> understands it, linux understands FAT32 as well as plain FAT, but you
> can't have a profile on plain fat because of the 8.3 restriction. How
> linux fares when it comes to accessing HPFS and/or HPFS386, She don't
> know, but according to some persons, linux seems to understand at least
> plain HPFS which HPFS386 is a superset of.

Ray has been sharing profiles between OS/2 and Windows for a long time 
by using FAT32, and of course Linux understands FAT32 but may not like 
drive letters in the profile. You could have your Linux profile with 
symlinks to your mail and newsgroups files.
Linux understands HPFS and HPFS386 fine except for not understanding the 
EAs and ACLs, though it does preserve them. Not every Linux distro 
installs HPFS support out of the box so you might have to install it.
One potential problem with sharing a profile is that Mozilla doesn't 
test downgrading the browser so if you're using SM2.35 on OS/2 and 
switch to SM2.4+ on Windows and then go back, things might break if new 
features have been added. As usual, lots of backups is best
Dave