Subject: suggestion regarding sent-mail expiring/renaming

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 12:50:22 -0500

Just a small ugliness...

There is zero reason for pine to prompt new Pine users regarding renaming
sent-mail just because they have no "last-time-prune-questioned" date in
.pinerc. Adding a quick stat() call to check the size of the current sent-mail
folder allows skipping the prompt if the sent-mail folder is zero bytes in
length (as for new users or people who never send mail, anyway).

By the way, my "system address book" functionality is working fine now. My
latest pico  hack was to replace P_open() (and the call for the spell
checker) so that you can run things without a shell; we are using ispell -l
now. ispell is certainly much more powerful than spell, but in the interest
of leaving pico alone as much as possible, I used the -l option so it would
behave like normal spell.

Billy, the P_open() call in pico/osdep.c can be used wherever you need
popen(). Its arguments are like those to execv() (varargs), except the first
argument is a filename to be placed on the child's standard input (or "\0" if
you don't need that). There is also a P_close() there.

--Shane