Re: Cygwin pine addressbook problem

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Daniel Barker wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I cannot make the address book work with Pine 4.58 for Cygwin,
> downloaded with the entire Cygwin package today and running under
> Windows XP Service Pack 2.
>
> If I copy over my old Pine 3.x address book from a Unix system, or if
> I create a new address book from scratch in Pine, it complains the
> .addressbook.lu is out of sync. Re-generating it with

What exactly is the error message?

> pine -create_lu .addressbook fullname-with-lists-last
>
> gives a segmentation fault. I've tried copying the Unix address book
> with and without the .lu file. Of course, when I generate a new
> address book from scratch, there is initially no .lu file. So the
> problem cannot be due to different versions of Pine (3.x vs 4.x), but
> must be with Cygwin pine's use of the address book and/or .lu files.
>
> Thank you for any advice. I haven't tested Cygwin pine extensively,
> but everything else about it seems fine so far.
>
> Best regards,

I think I see the problem, anyway.  Just to check, though: is your home
directory mounted in textmode?  What happens if you mount it in binary
mode (temporarily)?
	Igor
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