Subject: PC/UNIX PINE compatability (cont'd)

From: John Stumbles <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 19:26:44 GMT

Further to me previous postings about this: I said both (PC and Unix) 
versions of Pine seem happy with either DOS or Unix format for address 
book and signature files. 

However I have seen today a funny with the Unix version of Pine (v3.88)
with a DOS format address book file: the first column (nicknames) displays
only parts of some entries, until the cursor has run over the entry, and 
then it gets filled in. Once the entry has paged off the screen and back 
on it has gaps again. E.g.:

  ed                Bloggs, Fred                f.bloggs
a   ur              Daley, Arthur               [email-masked]
g d                 Deity, The                  s.being@heaven

and after the cursor has been down the page:

fred                Bloggs, Fred                f.bloggs
arthur              Daley, Arthur               [email-masked]
god                 Deity, The                  s.being@heaven

etc - get the idea?

With the DOS version of Pine reading a Unix format file everything is OK.

I also noted that the Unix Pine doesn't change the format of the address 
book file when it edits it, but the DOS version re-writes a Unix format 
file in DOS format when any changes are made.

John Stumbles
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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 09:29:12 -0800 (PST)

John,

I think at least part of what you are seeing is because of the newline 
differences.  PC-Pine sees the Unix NL and interprets it as a DOS CRNL, 
but Unix Pine sees the DOS CRNL and interprets the CR as text!  The other 
problem is probably due to trying to display the CR...

The compatibility you are seeing is purely coincidental and not by design.  A
future version of Pine will allow access to remote addressbooks via IMAP 
which will resolve this problem.

--DLM

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