found the solution.  apparantly I had /home/me/ as the home dir.  the last
"/" made a difference to pine.  interesting.


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Thomas T. Thai          Infomedia Interactive Communications
tom@iic.net             TEL 612.376.9090 * FAX 612.376.9087


On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Tom T. Thai wrote:

> Pine has been flawless on netbsd for me.  the other day I was playing
> around with my home dir for chroot for ftp etc.. and I changed my home dir
> to something like /home/./me and ran pine.  then later I changed it back
> to /home/me and ran pine to check email etc again.  Since, I've gotten
> this error:
> 
> [Error creating /mail/sent-mail.lock.908954559.3043.dream: No such file or
> dire]
> 
> I've removed all /home/me/.pine* files, but that doesn't seem to help.
> 
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> Thomas T. Thai          Infomedia Interactive Communications
> tom@iic.net             TEL 612.376.9090 * FAX 612.376.9087
> 
> 
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