Subject: Getting pico to work from within Pnews

From: Ralph Sims <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1993 13:35:17 -0800

It appears that newsposts from with Pnews using pico as an editor aren't
making it into newsgroups.  While this isn't actually a pine-related
question, I'd ask the list's indulgence, in the hopes that a pico (or
Pnews guru) might have a thought.

Thanks in advance.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1993 14:03:54 -0800 (PST)

It works fine for me, posting from here to uw.test...

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From: Ralph Sims <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1993 14:08:42 -0800 (PST)

I think I located a possible area...  It appears that there needs to be
a blank line between the last line of the header and the first line of
text.  I tried that, and successfully launched three posts.

I'll call off the troops.

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From: Dan Schlitt <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1993 19:26:03 -0500 (EST)

I do hope that when you fix things so you can post to news from within
Pine you will force the required empty line between the headers and the body!
That is the number two problem just behind the IBM nonsense of putting
spaces in lines that are supposed to be empty.

/dan

Dan Schlitt                           School of Engineering Computer Systems
[email-masked]        City College of New York
(212)650-6760                         New York, NY 10031

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From: Ralph Sims <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1993 16:34:35 -0800 (PST)

> spaces in lines that are supposed to be empty.

Unfortunately, Pnews places the cursor at the top of the file.  I would
imagine it could be hacked to drop down to the last line and do the
required magic.  In the meantime, it's all auto-manual.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1993 18:06:49 -0800 (PST)

Just to clarify a little. When executing pico from Pnews, it is simply acting
as a text editor.  It has absolutely no idea that anything but plain text. 
When called from Pine, it is passed a pre-constructed envelope and a text
body.  When you are editing the headers, Pico constructs the envelope.  When
full news posting support is added, all the news headers will be included in
the envelope.  And, yes, the blank line will be there ;)