Subject: Suggestions for Improvements in Pine

From: Barry Landy <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1993 13:10:59 GMT

One of my users has sent a longish list of these; the three I have not been 
able to answer directly (either stupid or on the list) are:

* Allowing you to set up your .pinerc file directly from within Pine - it 
would be nice, and has the potential for making the file much easier to 
change, the settings more intuitively obvious, and could reduce the 
possibility of error.

* Automatic Recognition of more file formats - not just TIFF, but how
about more common ones like GIF, JPEG, etc. 

* Making the Export command more like rn's extract command - so that you 
could easily, without having to think, extract uuencoded files (for 
example), even those split across several messages, and put them back 
together! 
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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1993 09:45:17 -0800 (PST)

Barry,

A builtin configuration editor is on the list.  When sending a message, Pine
can recognize TIFF, GIF, and JPEG/JFIF format attachments and label them
accordingly.  When viewing an attachment, it now assumes that the
image-viewer can handle any image.  Full support for .mailcap processing is
"just around the corner."  We are starting to get some experience with
.mailcap with other applications, so it should not be too long now.  We are
planning to implement the Pipe command pretty soon which should allow this
type of operation.  Using it with the apply command you will be able to pipe
a group of messages to a program, like uudecode.  We will also be working on
merging multi-message MIME attachments. 

Thanks for the suggestions!

--DLM

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