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Pine 3.96L installed in the sipb locker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Sun Jul 26 02:02:19 1998
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 02:01:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
To: software-announce@MIT.EDU
Pine 3.96L has been installed in the sipb locker.
To read your mail with it, you need two commands:
pine-inc will retrieve your mail from the mail servers
and store it in your account.
pine will read your mail, and compose new mail, and keep track
of addresses, and do all the other neat stuff that pine does.
Associated with Pine, the "pico" editor has been installed.
One change that has been made between the sipb installation of
Pine and the outland installation is that the default printer has
been changed to "lpr" (instead of "attached-to-ansi"). Users who
want print to use "attached-to-ansi" will have to set the
"printer" variable in their .pinerc file.
Another change is that pine can open a kerberized connection the
the pop servers. Unfortunately, this serves mostly to demonstrate
that interactive pop connections are less useful than downloading
your mail and reading it from disk is. (Hence, "pine-inc").
Enjoy; bug reports can be be directed to bug-sipb.
Below is the University of Washington's brochure describing Pine:
The PINE Message System
BACKGROUND
Pine(tm) --a Program for Internet News & Email-- is a tool for reading,
sending, and managing electronic messages. It was designed specifically
with novice computer users in mind, but can be tailored to accommodate the
needs of "power users" as well. Pine uses Internet message protocols
(e.g. RFC-822, SMTP, MIME, IMAP, NNTP) and runs on Unix and PCs.
The guiding principles for Pine's user-interface were: careful limitation
of features, one-character mnemonic commands, always-present command
menus, immediate user feedback, and high tolerance for user mistakes. It
is intended that Pine can be learned by exploration rather than reading
manuals. Feedback from the University of Washington community and many
thousands of Internet sites around the world has been encouraging.
Pine's message composition editor (Pico) and its file browser (Pilot) are
also available as separate stand-alone programs. Pico is a very simple
and easy-to-use text editor offering paragraph justification, cut/paste,
and a spelling checker.
FEATURES
- Online help specific to each screen and context.
- Message index showing a message summary which includes the status,
sender, size, date and subject of messages.
- Commands to view and process messages: Forward, Reply, Save,
Export, Print, Delete, capture address, and search.
- Message composer with easy-to-use editor and spelling checker.
The message composer also assists entering and formatting
addresses and provides direct access to the address book.
- Address book for saving long complex addresses and personal
distribution lists under a nickname.
- Message attachments via the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
(MIME) specification. MIME allows sending/receiving non-text
objects, such as binary files, spreadsheets, graphics, and sound.
- Folder management commands for creating, deleting, listing, or
renaming message folders. Folders may be local or on remote hosts.
- Access to remote message folders and archives via the Internet
Message Access Protocol (IMAP) as defined in RFC-1730.
- Internet news support via either NNTP or IMAP.
- Aggregate operations, e.g. saving a selected set of messages at once.
AVAILABILITY
Pine, Pico, and UW's IMAP server are copyrighted, but freely available.
The latest version, including source code, can be found on the Internet
host "ftp.cac.washington.edu" in the file "pine/pine.tar.Z" (accessible
via anonymous FTP). To try Pine out from the Internet, you may telnet to
"demo.cac.washington.edu" and login as "pinedemo".
For further information, visit the Pine Information Center at
http://www.washington.edu/pine
or send email to pine@cac.washington.edu. There is also a
Pine-specific Internet news group (comp.mail.pine).
Pine is brought to you by the Office of Computing & Communications at the
University of Washington. Pine and Pico are registered trademarks of UW.
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