Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!RAND.ORG!salzman%gaucho From: salzman%gaucho@RAND.ORG (Isaac Salzman) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: .amsalien Message-ID: <8ZvpJwb01EthQbikxR@gaucho.rand.org> Date: 3 Mar 90 05:26:20 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 49 Well, once again I'm attempting to get the .amsalien thing to work but I'm not having any luck whatsoever. I've done some more purusing of various manuals, help files, etc.... I want to be able to read some of my MH folders using messages. In theory I should be able to: - add ~/Mail to my mspath in preferences - create .amsalien in ~/Mail and then go into CUI and and run scavenge folder-name. Well, here's what happens: CUI> list rush Getting folder list; please stand by... (N) rush (N) rush.pend CUI> scav rush Recursively scavenge all subdirectories [No] ? Purge deletions after scavenging [No] ? There is no folder named 'rush'. CUI> So it sees the folder (when you list) but then it doesn't (when you scavenge). Btw, this is the version of Andrew that came with X11R4 (haven't had a chance to patch it up yet), on a Sparcstation-1/SunOS4.03. I ran trace on cui to see what it's actually doing. I noticed that it's looking for (via an access system call) .MS_MsgDir in the folder directory and prints the error just before it complains that there's no folder. Also, there were no calls to anything that tried to access .amsalien - so that check seems to be getting skipped altogether. Nathaniel, once upon a time you sent me a message describing what set debug options to use to try and track down the problems I was having (this was in the beta version), and I can't find the message. Can you send that info to me again? Thanks!! Is anyone else attempting to use this feature???!!! Ciao! * Isaac J. Salzman ---- * The RAND Corporation - Information Sciences Dept. /o o/ / * 1700 Main St., PO Box 2138, Santa Monica, CA 90406-2138 | v | | * AT&T : +1 213-393-0411 x6421 or x7923 (ISL lab) _| |_/ * Internet : salzman@rand.org / | | * UUCP : !uunet!rand.org!salzman | | | * CompuServe: 76167,1046