Subject: pine user's guide

From: "Helene Bouley" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 15:10:34 EST

Is anyone can say me where I could find the pine user's guide? (not 
technical notes)

thanks in advance,

Helene Bouley
Analyste
Service a la clientele
Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Tel: 987-3124
Fax: 987-7098
E-mail: [email-masked]

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 15:27:48 -0700 (PDT)

Helene,

There is not currently an official "Pine user's guide."  About the closest
thing we have at this time is the online help.  There is a pretty good
chapter on Pine in the "Instant Internet" book, and our documentation group
is working on a "getting started with Pine" pamplet, but I don't think it is
quite done yet.  There are also some tutorials done by other sites, but 
we don't have anything current from them...

--DLM

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|/ |_ |  |  Software Engineer, Pine Development Team   (206) 685-4045 (FAX)
University of Washington, Networks & Distributed Computing, JE-20
4545 15th Ave NE, Seattle WA 98105, USA

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From: Alex Tang <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 21:38:05 -0400 (EDT)

> we don't have anything current from them...

Hi folks.  I've been a little hesitant about publicizing this, but I have
a set of pine docs that's being tossed around U-Mich.  It's a beginner's
guide to Pine.  Although it does have some things that are specifically
meant for my school (UM school of Natural Resources and Environment), I
could remove them and distribute a PS version.  Mind you it's not as
comprehensive as the Pine online help, but from experience, i've found
that it does cover about 90% of my users' questions.  

It was spawned out of a need for some "quickie" pine docs.  I originally
intended to have it be 1 page both sides, but I quickly found that writing
docs takes longer than I thought.  After about 2 weeks, It's final form
ended up being 10 pages, and now it's 13.  It's written for the computer
novice.  I tried to stay away from using technical language.  For anyone
who's been using pine for more than a month, it'll be mostly review.
Nevertheless, I've had to move 40 or so people over to pine since
February, and this doc has worked so far.  I've had people at the U say
that they worked for their departments too.

I'm working on the latest revision (touching up some of the new stuff I
wrote yesterday), But if you send me email ([email-masked]) , I can
forward off a PS file pretty soon (couple of days).  I'd do it sooner,
but I got finals this week... UUGH. :(

Oh yeah, There's a plain text version on 
  gopher.snre.umich.edu (in the "SNRE Computer Documentation") section.

And on:
  http://www.snre.umich.edu/snre/pine.intro.html

NOTE, both of these are the old versions.  I'd ask that you don't print a
copy because i'm working on a new set.  (but that's just a request).  

Have fun.

...alex...

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