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List:       alpine-info
Subject:    Re: [Alpine-info] resorting of folders
From:       Mike Miller <mbmiller () taxa ! epi ! umn ! edu>
Date:       2008-06-03 5:46:08
Message-ID: alpine.GSO.1.10.0806030043490.3720 () taxa ! epi ! umn ! edu
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On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Steve Hubert wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Mike Miller wrote:
>
>> There seems to have been a change from Pine to Alpine in how folder sorting 
>> works.  If I use some method to sort a folder, then I save all of the files 
>> in it into a new folder, Pine will keep the sort order of the original 
>> folder.  Example:  I sort by date, then ";a" and "as" and save to some new 
>> folder, and the new folder when sorted by arrival time (the default) is 
>> sorted by date.  This is helpful when my arrival times get messed up and I 
>> want to fix them by sorting by date (a close approximation, usually). 
>> Unfortunately, Alpine doesn't seem to do this for me -- am I missing 
>> anything?
>
> Check to see if the feature
>
>  Save Combines Copies
>
> is turned on or off. If it is on the sort order can be lost when saving.

Yep, mine was on, which I guess is the default:

       [X]  Save Combines Copies (may be out of order) (default)


>> By the way, I have stopped using Alpine for now because I was having too 
>> many crashes on Solaris.  I can't shell or use lynx as a URL viewer and 
>> sometimes just sending an ordinary message causes Alpine to hang 
>> permanently.  Usually I have to use "kill -9" to kill it when that happens. 
>> Messages have been lost.  I have sent bug reports and gdb backtraces, so I 
>> hope that will help to get this resolved and I can then return to Alpine. 
>> If it weren't for these problems, Alpine would clearly be superior to Pine. 
>> Let me know if there is anything else I can do to help.
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Mike
>
> Unfortunately we haven't had much luck tracking down the Solaris 
> problems yet. We hope to get back to taking another look at that but we 
> haven't yet. Maybe some seemingly unrelated fix in the next release will 
> have the happy side effect of fixing that, too (keeping fingers 
> crossed). Thanks.

Thanks, Steve.  I'll always test new versions to see if they work.  On the 
other hand, I'm thinking of moving all my work to Linux anyway, and I'll 
probably do that within the year.

Mike
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