Subject: addressbooks

From: "Philip D. Young" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 10:30:00 -0700 (PDT)

I would like to see multiple personal and shared addressbooks included in 
the next release of pine.

Phil Young

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 11:21:44 -0800 (PST)

Philip,

Thanks for the request!

--DLM

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|/ |_ |  |  Software Engineer, Pine Development Team   (206) 685-4045 (FAX)
University of Washington, Networks & Distributed Computing
4545 15th Ave NE, Seattle WA 98105, USA

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From: Richard Lee <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 19:55:11 -0600 (CST)

A friendly suggestion for the wonderful pine development team.
	When exporting a message to a file pine (nicely) checks to see if
the file exists.  If it does, the user is given the option of appending
the new message to the end of the exiting file.  If you say "n"o, the
export will be canceled.  (I assume ^C will have the identical effect.)
There is no way, so far as I know, of *choosing* to overwrite the old
message with the new one.  (Of course one could shell out, rm the old
file, and then return to the export, but that's several steps.) So
consider adding:  "File exists, (o) overwrite, (a) append, or (c) cancel?"
	If you don't like this ("hey, the other messages give yes/no 
options instead of a list"), no big deal.

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Dr. Richard Lee                         [email-masked]
Department of Philosophy Old Main 318   [email-masked]
University of Arkansas                  phone: 501-575-5826
Fayetteville, AR 72701

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From: Adam Garrett <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 18:22:36 -0800 (PST)

I like this idea too.  I like to save files to 'temp', for example, all the 
time and would rather overwrite it, then append it.  

-Adam

Adam R. Garrett
University of Washington Libraries     INTERNET: [email-masked]
352 Suzzallo Library, FM-25            PHONE:    (206) 543-8843
Seattle, WA  98195                     FAX:      (206) 685-8049

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From: Ian Dunkin <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 10:24:20 +0000 (GMT)

> consider adding:  "File exists, (o) overwrite, (a) append, or (c) cancel?"

Yes!  That would be very popular here too.

  I.

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Ian Dunkin <[email-masked]>
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From: Omi Chandiramani <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 15:24:05 -0500 (EST)

On Fri, 18 Feb 1994, Ian Dunkin wrote:

[..]
> > consider adding:  "File exists, (o) overwrite, (a) append, or (c) cancel?"

I dont know how the average user feels about this but if we just wanted to
stick to the Yes/No answer format then I'd much rather have Pine ask me if
I want to overwrite the file. I use temp a lot too and I can't remember a
single time when i needed Pine to append a message to a file. Of course
there are probably LOTS of users who might disagree with me on this but
then again maybe not!? 

Omi Chandiramani

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 17:18:05 -0800 (PST)

Richard,

Thanks for the suggestion!  I'll make sure it gets on the list!	

--DLM