Subject: ANNOUNCING general availability of PC-Pine 3.84 (Beta #3)

From: Michael Seibel <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 15:14:09 PDT

This note is to announce (finally!) general availability of the Pine port
to DOS; the first widely-available release of PC-Pine.  It's distributed
in executable form compatible with either FTP Inc's PC/TCP, Novell's LAN
WorkPlace for DOS, or a suitable packet-driver. 

PC-Pine is intended to look and feel very much like Pine on UNIX, however
enhancements in 3.84 have had some impact on the user-interface (e.g.,
print is no longer "L").  As we understand the importance of a common
interface, a source release of the next version, 3.85, is planned for
August.  It will bring the UNIX version into line with this release and
include several new ports (including DOS). 

We believe version 3.84 is reasonably stable and free of serious bugs, but
still consider it a test version.  We'll try to have any reported bugs
fixed in the upcoming source release.

How to get your very own copy...

    mkdir pine
    cd \pine

    ftp ftp.cac.washington.edu
    cd /mail
    binary
    get pcpine_n.zip      <-- Novell LWP version
or  get pcpine_f.zip      <-- FTP PC/TCP version
or  get pcpine_p.zip      <-- WATTCP/packet-driver version
    quit

    pkunzip *.zip

The packet-driver version, and in some cases the PC/TCP and LWP versions,
will need additional configuration prior to running pine.  The extra step
is described in the distribution's INSTALL.TXT file. 

Otherwise, typing "pine" after unpacking should get you started.  Pine
will prompt for and insert in its configuration file (pinerc) information
it needs to run.  However, it might be best to look at the INSTALL.TXT
file first, so you know what Pine will ask you for.  Alternatively, you
can edit (and rename) the sample pinerc file, PINERC.SAM, as appropriate. 

Lastly, PC-Pine's access to incoming mail and other remote folders is via
the Interactive Mail Access Protocol (IMAP).  To take full advantage of
the new support for remote folder collection access (e.g., folders of
previously archived messages on a UNIX host), it's necessary to install
the latest IMAPd server, also available from ftp.cac.washington.edu in the
/mail directory under imap.tar.Z. 

Enjoy!

The Pine Team
University of Washington

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From: [email-masked] (Christer Lindh)
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 10:06:25 MET

>>Re PC-PINE:
> We believe version 3.84 is reasonably stable and free of serious
> bugs, but still consider it a test version.  We'll try to have any
> reported bugs fixed in the upcoming source release.

It worked like a charm, right out of the box with ONE, but major,
exception:

I can't type any 8-bit characters!  And any 8-bit chars sent in a mail
from UNIX-PINE (as ISO-8859-1) show up as "_", despite me having these
option set:

	character-set=ISO-8859-1
	feature-list=old-growth,show-all-characters

I really hope this is supposed to work in the final release, else
PC-PINE is utterly useless to us and the rest of the world that needs
8-bit charsets. The reason we have switched the UNIX users to Pine is
the support for encoding and decoding 8-bit chars without the user
having to bother. 

If it is to be implemented, will PC-PINE have map-tables to map from
the PC codetable to for example ISO-8859-n and vice verse? If so,
please implement that in UNIX-PINE as well. We need that to map
Swedish 7-bit (ISO 646-SE) to ISO-8859-1 for the users that have 7-bit
terminals (ie a '}' becomes a ISO 8859-1 "a-ring")

We would also like to see support for ISO-8859 in the HEADERS. That is
part of the MIME standard I believe.

Also, can we hope on some rudimentary mouse-support in the future?
(I bet a Windows-version is faaar away)

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