Subject: pc-pine

From: Jason Cross <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 13:09:42 -0500 (EST)

Is there much difference (in terms of look and functionality)
between the pc and unix versions?  Is the pc version just
as easy to compile and install as unix?  Any feedback (subjective
or objective) is welcome.  Thanks a bunch.

ciao,
Jason Cross <[email-masked]>
EDS      
Troy, Mi.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 12:59:34 -0800 (PST)

Jason,

We have made the PC and Unix versions of pine as close to the same as we 
can.  I'm not sure about the ease of compilation, but we distribute 
pre-compiled versions of PC-Pine for all of the currently supported 
TCP/IP stacks.

Thanks for the interest!

--DLM

|\ |  |\/|  David L. Miller    [email-masked]  (206) 685-6240
|/ |_ |  |  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: John Stumbles <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 13:15:32 GMT

> or objective) is welcome.  Thanks a bunch.

Practically the only difference is the IMAP logon IF your Unix version 
doesn't use IMAP and IF you don't have PCPINE store your password - 
otherwise you might never know the difference.

Except when PCPINE runs out of memory, falls over and waves its little 
legs in the air! :-)

Oh and PC - 'compile' - what's a compiler? ;-)
Installation is as easy/pig-awful-difficult as any other PC application - 
i.e. a real pain first time, then OK once you know how. (I gave up on the 
soi-disant PCNFS version - not even any documentation to tell you why it 
doesn't work! - but the packet driver version works fine. If you're not 
using packet drivers .... tough!

John Stumbles                                       [email-masked]
University of Reading                                              0734 318435
Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK
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