On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 02:33:32AM EDT, Thomas Glanzmann wrote: > > Who says you can't have your cake and eat it too? > > is it true, that mbx isn't NFS safe? mbx is apparently based on a format called mtx, the old Tenex/TOPS-20 mail.txt format, which evolved from the Columbia MM format. None of the single-file formats are going to ever support NFS properly due to the unreliable nature of race conditions, without doing an awful lot of extra work (and probably some temp files, or other synchronization methods ... and there will inevitably be race conditions there, too - the problem is that NFSv2 simply isn't powerful enough for concurrent RW access to a plaintext file from multiple processes in a safe way ... you may want to try something like codafs instead for sharing your mailbox). HTH, - Dave -- Uncle Cosmo, why do they call this a word processor? It's simple, Skyler. You've seen what food processors do to food, right? Please visit this link: http://rotter.net/israel
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