Subject: Re: MSDOS Port of Pine?

From: [email-masked] (Steve Traugott)
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 93 15:57:34 EST

Terry Gray <[email-masked]> writes:

> PC-Pine is *still* "well underway" :)
 
> And yes, it was a *lot* harder than it looked.  Mostly trying to squeeze
> things into a 640K address space, while still being able to deal with
> arbitrarily large mailboxes and arbitrarily large MIME attachments.
> (We won't talk about the weeks lost discovering and working around
> Microsoft bugs...)  All of the work has been done by Mike Seibel, who has
> been working on it for 7 months, at about 80 hours a week, with low-level
> library support from Mark Crispin.

Goodness!  I'm glad I asked.  Some credit is definitely due there.

I've just started porting the 'tin' newsreader, and haven't yet
gotten anywhere near running make, let alone trying to load the
thing.  Here's hoping 'tin' is small enough...

> Our best guess at the moment is that we'll have a general beta release
> ready in about 4 weeks (around the ides of March :)

I'll keep my eyes open.  Is the beta going to be copied to the ftp
directory?

Steve
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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1993 14:00:02 -0800 (PST)

> thing.  Here's hoping 'tin' is small enough...

Incidentally, one of the things we've been working on in the background in
mail and news integration.  For sites that store news on the same machine
that has user home directories (in particular, .newsrc files), it is
possible to use Pine/IMAP for reading news today, though more work is
needed on the user interface.  Mark has just finished the first cut of an
NNTP driver for C-client, so we expect that PC-Pine will be able to read
news using either a central .newsrc model via IMAP, or a local/desktop
.newsrc model via NNTP. Not sure how soon we'll have the pieces together,
but it is coming.   We haven't done anything about posting yet.

I'm sure tin will have superior news reading functionality for awhile
anyway, but we think there is merit in providing a common UI to both
worlds. 

> I'll keep my eyes open.  Is the beta going to be copied to the ftp

Definitely.  And of course there will be an anouncement posted to
pine-info and pine-announce.

-teg