[Pine-info] .pinerc maintenance

[Steve Hubert]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Steve Thompson wrote:


>

> Wishlist: it would be really useful if pine had the ability to edit a

> .pinerc file entirely from the command line (ie from within a script),

> such as the ability to perform all the functions of the setup screen.

> While it does have the ability to change setup parameters for the current

> session, there does not appear to be a way to save these changes in

> .pinerc. Using pine 4.63.

>

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Normally, any changes you make in pine in the Setup/Config screen should 
be saved permanently. Are you getting any error messages? Maybe your 
pinerc file is not writable, or maybe the directory it is located in is 
not writable?

Steve