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From: "Peter Wisnovsky" <peter AT wisnovsky DOT net>
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Subject: Re: cygwin movemail file truncation
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 13:34:03 -0800
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Ah, ok, thanks, that fixed it. However running with a binmode home directory
will break other things, since everything in there is generally a text file.
Who maintains the cygwin compile of stuff like emacs movemail? I'm not sure
where I can file a bug...

Peter

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Hall" <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
To: "Peter Wisnovsky" <peter AT wisnovsky DOT net>; <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: cygwin movemail file truncation -#- MailID:CNAA


> At 02:31 PM 2/13/2004, Peter Wisnovsky you wrote:
> >Hi! I'm trying to figure out a problem I seem to be having with cygwin
> >movemail, installed in
> >
> >    /usr/sbin/emacs/21.2/i686-pc-cygwin/movemail
> >
> >My mail directory for procmail/fetchmail is ~/usr/mail. HOME is
> >/users/pwisnovsky. /users is mounted from C:/Documents and Settings in
> >textmode:
> >
> >    c:\Documents and Settings on /users type system (textmode)
> >
> >I have a mailbox tmp.spool which got mail routed into it via
> >procmail/fetchmail:
> >
> >    -rw-------    1 pwisnovs mkgroup-    67067 Feb 13 10:32 tmp.spool
> >
> >When I run movemail -p tmp.spool tmp I end up with
> >
> >    -rw-rw-r--    1 pwisnovs mkgroup-     1024 Feb 13 11:17 tmp
> >    -rw-------    1 pwisnovs mkgroup-    67067 Feb 13 10:32 tmp.spool
> >
> >Ick! Where did the rest of my email go? I'm trying to bin up my email
using
> >procmail automagically for later perusal via Emacs VM.
> >
> >Any suggestions? Could this be a CR/NL/lseek issue? I'm running the
cygwin
> >emacs 21.2.1 under Xfree86.
>
>
> Sounds like it could be a binary/text mode issue.  Try mounting '/users'
> as binary instead of text.  If it works then, you'll know movemail hasn't
> been properly ported to Windows.
>
>
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