Re: Fwd: PINE problem

It would appear that on Feb 4, Bret Busby did say:

> I have just installed alpine on my laptop, on Debian 5 (my pine
> installation is on another computer; my desktop). In looking at the
> alpine .pinerc file, the file has its own inline documentation, as
> opposed to the contextual help facility in the pine .pinerc file.
> 
> Can it be done, that a user renames the mail directory hierarchy (eg,
> to pinemail), and .pinerc (eg, to .pinerc-pine), then intalls alpine,
> renamed the pinemaildirectory hierarchy to mail, and then imports the
> .pinerc settings into the alpine .pinerc file, so that the settings
> from the original .pinerc file, are preserved into the new alpine
> .pinerc, but the alpine .pinerc inline documentation, is also
> preserved in the file?

I think your making this harder on your self than it needs to be Bret.
Since your concerned with potentially losing some of your existing mail
messages, installing alpine to the laptop instead of the desktop (where I
presume the existing messages are stored) is a good idea. This way you can
see for yourself how alpine works without risking those messages. {Though if
you care about them you really should try to replace that bad usb drive and
back them up!}

But since your talking about renaming your pine "mail directory hierarchy"
I presume that you also have existing messages on the laptop. If the laptop
has room to COPY rather than renaming the "mail directory hierarchy" it
would serve as a back-up just incase somehow alpine does what I'm sure it
won't, and corrupts or loses some of your messages.

I'm thinking that by inline documentation you must be talking about
commented lines in the .pinerc, such as:

# Reflects capabilities of the display you have.
# If unset, the default is taken from your locale. That is usually the right
# thing to use. Typical alternatives include UTF-8, ISO-8859-x, and EUC-JP
# (where x is a number between 1 and 9).
display-character-set=

Since I initially started alpine with a copy of my existing .pinerc
file I never saw the default one that alpine would have generated.
Thus I was unaware that it no longer includes this by default???

But If you simply leave a "COPY" of the "good" .pinerc in place when you
run alpine, it should leave the existing commented lines alone when it updates
it. At least as many times as I've copied my .pinerc to a new installation, it's
always appeared to keep the existing comments for me.

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