[pmmail-list] Putting PMMail's data on a network drive

[Tim Roberts]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 18:41:52 -0500, Kari Suomela wrote:
>
>Friday July 18 2003 23:41, Robert Dahlem wrote to All:
>
> >> On a properly configured network drive, there is no problem. A 
> > major
> >> problem, though, is CASE. It seems that different versions over the
> >> years have created files sometimes in UPPECASE and sometimes in
> >> lowercase. Of course, this creates a problem in accessing the 
> > network
> >> directory from a MS machine. Indexing will never work, unless case
> >> handling in PMMail is fixed to work consistently.
>
> RD> This is simply bullshit.
>
>Call it whatever you like!
>
>PMMail is an old DOS/OS2 port. which certainly has room for improvement 
>as far as case handling is concerned. Not having message folders 
>properly indexed, causes a degradation in performance, and other 
>annoying 'features', like some messages taking forever to appear.

That's not what he was dissing.  I don't think anyone doubts that PMMail is 
inconsistent with its casing.  However, if I create the file XxXx.FLD, and 
later on open up xXxX.fld, both names refer to the same file, even over a Linux 
Samba share.

--
- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.


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