If it is an option, you might consider running the Windows 'convert' utility to change your filesystem from FAT32 to NTFS. Your operating system (Win2K) support NTFS, of course.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Scott W Brim [mailto:sbrim@;cisco.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 12:11 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: FAT32, "lock count exceeded", mutt etc. > > > Looking through the mail archives I can't tell what the > recommended fix > is for running mutt/fetchmail/procmail and all on a FAT32 > partition, wrt > file locking problems. There was plenty of discussion last > summer but I > can't find a resolution. So far I've tried CYGWIN=nontsec, and > reconfiguring and recompiling mutt. No luck. Help? What > are the magic > words? > > The output from mutt -v is appended (Outlook Express is going to have > great fun wrapping it). > > Thanks ... Scott > > > [12:06:51 ~]$ mutt -v > Mutt 1.4i (2002-05-29) > Copyright (C) 1996-2001 Michael R. Elkins and others. > Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'. > Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it > under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details. > > System: CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.3.15(0.63/3/2) (i686) [using ncurses 5.2] > Compile options: > -DOMAIN > -DEBUG > -HOMESPOOL -USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK -DL_STANDALONE > +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK > +USE_POP +USE_IMAP -USE_GSS +USE_SSL -USE_SASL > -HAVE_REGCOMP +USE_GNU_REGEX > +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET > +HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM > +HAVE_PGP +BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT > +ENABLE_NLS > +LOCALES_HACK -HAVE_WC_FUNCS -HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET > -HAVE_LANGINFO_YE > SEXPR > +HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS -HAVE_GETSID -HAVE_GETADDRINFO > -ISPELL > SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail" > MAILPATH="/var/spool/mail" > PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt" > SYSCONFDIR="/etc" > EXECSHELL="/bin/sh" > -MIXMASTER > To contact the developers, please mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > To report a bug, please use the flea(1) utility. > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
