[Alpine-info] cd within alpine; un-suspend

[David Forrest]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Jacob Wegelin wrote:


>

> On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:

>

>> On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Jacob Wegelin wrote:

>> 

>>> 

>>> [...]

>>> 

>>> ctrl z ... this suspended Alpine; I was back at the unix prompt

>>> 

>>> cd to the directory in which I wanted to save the attachment

>>> 

>>> But then I saw no way to un-suspend Alpine. So I typed "alpine" again and 

>>> went through the same rigamarole of giving my password for the IMAP 

>>> server. Furthermore, I now had *two* Alpine jobs running and my 

>>> postponed-msgs folder was locked up by the first job.

>>> 

>>> How does one un-suspend Alpine? I tried ctrl c, ctrl z, ctrl u, ctrl x, to 

>>> no avail.

>> 

>> Try typing fg followed by enter/return. 'fg' = foreground. That works in 

>> many shells.

>> 

>> The working directory of the suspended Alpine won't have been changed, 

>> though.

>> 

>> Best,

>> Ben

>> 

>

> Thanks. "fg" does work on my Mac in "Terminal". It gets me back into Alpine. 

> But, as you predict, it does not change the default directory for exporting a 

> file.

>

> Jake

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I guess I just don't understand the question as I save messages to other 
directories regularly without a problem.  Maybe it's because I use the 
mbox format???..  Anyway,for saving - an S, [path]folder works fine; as 
does E, [path]file-name for exporting.  Both work with full or relative 
paths, although relative folders are relative to alpine's current folder 
and full path there is $HOME/mail [INBOX] for me.

Dave

David Forrest                     e-mail   drf at maplepark.com
Maple Park Development Corporation  http://www.maplepark.com
St. Louis, Missouri