Subject: Update Disable ?

From: Scott McWilliams <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 19:37:24 -0500 (EST)

We're planning on rolling out the 3.89 Pine in February to our hospital 
users, but are leery of the network traffic as people experiment with the 
Update option from the Setup menu. Is there any way to disable this? 

Thanks.

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From: "Michael A. Crowley" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 21:14:43 -0500 (EST)

It will probably generate less traffic than my responding
to this message.  I'd suggest not to worry about it.

Mike

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From: Jos Vos <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 94 08:11:19 MET

> Update option from the Setup menu. Is there any way to disable this? 

I agree with you that you should be able to disable it, either
dynamically or statically (at compile-time).

For Pine 3.87 (if I'm right) I made a patch to introduce a macro
DISABLE_UPDATE.  Compiling Pine with -DDISABLE_UPDATE then does
what it says: disabling the update option (and the option has
also disappeared from the menu).

If people are interested I can mail it (but remember, it is for
3.87 and it may require some porting).

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From: Andy Poling <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 15:24:37 -0500

> to this message.  I'd suggest not to worry about it.

Does this mean that it is somewhat clever (i.e. it checks to see if an update is
necessary before doing it)?

-Andy

PS: Does the latest version of pico do an idlok() or the equivalent?  The
version with 3.05 is maddeningly slow when it keeps re-drawing everything each
time I delete a line... 

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