Subject: Pine and PC-Pine 3.88 now available

From: Michael Seibel <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1993 20:10:07 -0800 (PST)

For the most part, Pine 3.88 is a maintenance release that fixes a number
of bugs ranging from the merely annoying to the truly nasty.  An overview
of the fix list is included below, and an itemized list can be found in
the distribution's release notes.  If this is the first version run since
3.0x, it's probably a good idea to read the release notes to see what's
changed since 3.07 as well. 

The distribution is available via ftp from ftp.cac.washington.edu in the
file "mail/pine.tar.Z".  PC-Pine can also be retrieved via the "Setup" 
command's "Update" option. 

As always, many thanks to all who have taken the time to provide valuable
feedback and bug reports.  Thanks for the help! 

The Pine Team

SUMMARY OF 3.88 CHANGES:

- Fixed: A nasty bug causing Pine to go into an infinite loop if it
  received a "Hang Up" signal while in the composer.

- Fixed: At least some (maybe even all!) causes of crashes associated
  with the message "Bad msgno in mail_fetchstructure".

- Fixed: Several other bugs leading to Pine crashes.

- Fixed: About 65 other less severe bugs.

- Changed: several MIME encoding rules.  Inline text should be encoded
  less often, and hardly ever in Base64.  (More than 30% of the characters
  would need to be 8-bit in order to trigger Base64 encoding.)  Also,
  all IMAGE types, including TIFF, are now passed to the external viewer,
  if one is defined.

- Changed: default folder name for Goto.  Now you are never more than
  two keystrokes away from your INBOX.

- Changed: Method for moving to next news group.  Used to be "D" or "N"
  on the last message would prompt for the next newsgroup.  Now TAB does
  this "magic" function, and it also works in INBOX if you have multiple
  Incoming Message Folders defined.

- Changed: the interval for checking new mail has been increased from
  0.5 min to 2.5 min in order to reduce Pine's resource use.  The
  checkpointing algorithm is also smarter about when to checkpoint.

- Changed "(y/n)" prompt string to "(y/n/^C)" to make visible the fact
  that the operation can be cancelled via Control-C.

- Added: new prompt in Keyboard Lock to allow confirmation or escape after
  entering a password.

- Added: ability to enter control characters as ESCAPE ESCAPE <character>
  as a workaround for terminal servers and communication programs that
  gobble up certain control characters.

- There are also a few fixes to Pico and IMAPd in this release.

Note to Sequent PTX 1.X users:  if you are experiencing performance
 problems, make sure you get the new patch from Sequent to make "fsync"
 work like all other Unix "fsync"s instead of just doing a "sync" instead!

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From: Ian Lumb <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 09:17:29 -0500

Greetings:-

I just tried to pick up some AIX 3.2 and Sun binaries from 

	pine.cac.washington.edu:/pine/unix-binaries

and

	pine.cac.washington.edu:/pine/UNIX-BINARIES

but was unable to as permission was denied. I was wondering if you folks 
could fix up the permissions on the files in this directory.

Thanks,

Ian.

--
Ian Lumb     Internet: <[email-masked]>
Earth & Atmospheric Science, York University
North York, Ontario  M3J 1P3,  CANADA
Voice: (416) 736-5245; Fax: (416) 736-5817

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 07:51:45 -0800 (PST)

Ian,
As far as I can tell, the protections are OK, and here is a line from
the transfer log indicating that a successful transfer has occurred:

Thu Nov 25 01:02:21 50 gatekeeper.dec.com 3858030 
  /mail/UNIX-BINARIES/pine-bin.aix32

Note that the lower-case version of the directory is abbreviated: unix-bin
(It is a symbolic link to UNIX-BINARIES, just as /pine is a symbolic link
to /mail)

Please try it again and let us know what happens...

-teg

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From: Ian Lumb <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 12:28:00 -0500

Major apologies: There seems to have been some problems associated with 
the host that I was using for ftp! I have successfully ftp'd several 
binaries now. Sorry for the red herring !

Ian.

On Thu, 25 Nov 1993, Terry Gray wrote:

> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 07:51:45 -0800 (PST)
> From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
> To: Ian Lumb <[email-masked]>
> Cc: PINE INFO <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Re: Pine and PC-Pine 3.88 now available
> 
> Ian,