On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Pablo Manalastas wrote:

>
> While composing mail in pine using the pico editor, I get
> disconnected from the Linux mail server because I exceed
> the max allowed time per login session.  The email that
> I am composing is aborted, but I know that the partial
> text that I have so painstakingly typed is still somewhere
> in the pico purgatory of edit buffers.  Sometime later,
> after I reconnect again, pine reminds me that I have unfinished
> mail and asks if I want to continue editing it.  Occasionally
> this reminder comes soooo late, and I can not wait so long
> for it.  Does anyone know where pico keeps this unfinished
> edit buffer?  Thanks.
>

Not having done this myself, i believe pine/pico will store it in a file
somewhere, so

 strace 2>&1 pico myfile | grep "^open" > /tmp/strace.txt

should do the trick...



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