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>Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@thumper.bellcore.com> writes:
>Somewhere deep in the bowels of the documentation, I'm pretty sure that
>it says that an AMS tree root must be a directory whose name starts with
>".MESSAGES".  That is, it can be ".MESSAGES", ".MESSAGES_foobar", etc. 
>The reason for this restriction is that it is often necessary to find
>the root of an AMS tree, given a folder path name.  The root is now
>well-defined as the first .MESSAGES* directory that it finds upon
>climbing up the tree.

Well, I definitely think that was one of the problems. I actually took it
one step further. I sym-linked ~/.MESSAGES to ~/Mail - so MH and messages
just share the same tree - period. Bill Cattey gave me the other piece of
the answer. In order for .amsalien and scavenge to work you need to first
"CREATE" the folder with CUI. I tried this on existing MH folders and it
works just fine. If the directory doesn't exist it creates it, if it
already exists it just creates .MS_MsgDir and leaves everything else alone.


>BTW, I do recommend that you incorporate patches 1-3, especially since
>you're on a SPARC, for which several core dump bug fixes have been
>released.  

I've been intending to, but someone stole my disk space!! :-) So I gather
with patch level 3 everything works, even when compiling with -O? 

>Also, in answer to your debugging question:  the magic command you want
>for any messageserver-related  debugging is "set debug 0 0 0 -1".   You
>can control the quantity of output by replacing the -1 with some other
>number, but then you'll have to look at the code to figure out which
>number you want, which is probably not worth the trouble....   

Thanks, I won't loose the message this time!

>Hope that helps.  -- Nathaniel

Sure does! Thanks again - to you and Bill.... To anyone listening at CMU:
you may want to add these little tidbit's of info to the doc's on how to
use the .amsalien stuff. Just in case there is one more person out there
interested in using it - it'll probably save them a couple hours. :-)

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