Where is current Information Stored?

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3 total messages Started by Martin McCormick Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:48

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Author: Martin McCormick
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:48

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I am curious as to how MH stores the current message number and current
folder name.  I could dig through the sources to find it out, but I hope
somebody already knows without going to a lot of trouble.

	Many thanks.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ   Stillwater, OK
O.S.U. Computer Center Data Communications Group

Re: Where is current Information Stored?

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Author: Martin McCormick
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:38

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I want to thank all who answered.  The current folder is found in 
$home/Mail/context and the current message number is found in .mh_sequences
which resides in the folder.  I wasn't as thorough at looking as I thought.
The name, "context" threw me off of looking there, and I forgot to do ls-a
in any folder or I would have seen it.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ   Stillwater, OK
O.S.U. Computer Center Data Communications Group

Re: Where is current Information Stored?

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Author: Peter Kaminski
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:33

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In <1993Jan12.174858.11636@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu>
martin@datacomm.ucc.okstate.edu (Martin McCormick) writes:

>I am curious as to how MH stores the current message number and current
>folder name.  I could dig through the sources to find it out...

...or the docs -- a couple of the man pages are relevant.  Here's one --
from the FILES section of the mh-sequence(5) man page:

     <mh-dir>/context                       The user context
     <folder>/.mh_sequences                 Public sequences for <folder>

See the docs for more detail, but the current folder name is in
<mh-dir>/context, current sequence info is in the folder with the
messages in .mh_sequences if the folder is writable, otherwise it's
in <mh-dir>/context.

Have fun!

Pete

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