Re: Understanding Pine incoming-folders and
"NM Public" <[email protected]> 22 Aug 2006 11:06:23 +0100
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| Organization | Infinite Ink |
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> I just thought of another. You point out, *very* helpfully, in > the new incoming-folder section of the faq that an "incoming > folder" is really a nickname for an already existing folder. > Does that mean it's in fact a pointer to it? So that what I see > among my incoming folders and again in each of two > folder-collections, is all really one folder -- and takes up > only one folder's space on my host's machine? Yes, a Pine incoming folder is a pointer. And yes, the seemingly replicated folders are all just different names (or pointers) to one single folder. I'll update my Power Pine page so it says something like this. Thank you! Nancy