Re: UQWK packing order
From: A.R. & F.L. Scott-Thoennes (sthoenna@peak.org)
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 08:39:31 -0800
In article <eDg3ygHAAYwc092yn@y.z>,
hello-yarners@see.my.sig (Tim Middletyn) wrote:
>Wed, 15 Jan 1997 21:30:07 -0500, cordahi@interlog.com (George Cordahi) wrote:
>>BTW, I used Chin's opp script at internex. I look forward to seeing a
>>generic version that can be used at interlog. Could opp have been modifying
>>the ordering in uqwk ???
>
>Ah Chin's wicked "opp" script. The world will never see the likes of
>that again. <-: I have been looking it over and it does some really
>weird and wonderful stuff... some stuff looks to be somewhat IO
>specific...
>
>The way Chin gets it to pack mail first (by happy accident or design,
>i do not know) is that he actually backs up your mailbox first and the
>makes a copy of the backup and then tells UQWK that the copy of the
>backup is your mail -- using the -f switch in Uqwk... i THINK (not
>100 possitive not having experimented with it) that is what causes it
>to pack the mail first -- i know every other way i've tried it always
>does news first...
Using the -f switch on a mv'ed mailbox is the recommended way to use
uqwk since it doesn't do locking. If you actually run it on your
real mailbox you can loose something if an article arrives during
uqwk's mail processing.