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From: jab@floodland.netis.com (GreyStar)
Subject: Re: Pine 3.95 and pine.conf/pine.conf.fixed
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On Sun, 01 Dec 1996 21:11:22 -0500, David M. Fogarty <chaos@wsg.net> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I would like to set up Pine to default to a file (Mailbox) in the user's
> home directory.  I know I need to set inbox-path=Mailbox but for some
> reason Pine seems to ignore it's system wide configuration file.  If you
> specify the system wide file, it works fine.
> 
> I've got pine.conf in /usr/local/lib/ as specified as the default
> location for the global config file in the man pages....  Where'd I go
> wrong?
> 

Try putting the file in /usr/local/etc.  HTH.

-jab

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