Subject: pine mail vs. news

From: Bruce Mahfood <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 15:59:08 -0400 (EDT)

Is it possible to jump between mail and news without having to close one 
or the other out?  I would like to freely be reading or write my mail and 
just bounce over to news to see some information.  That is, actually, the 
only thing about seperate packages that I didn't think about before starting 
to use pine. You can go to news to cut something out with your mouse and 
go back to your mailer and paste it in.  May not seem like much, but, 
when you're in a mailer and want to refer to an article you can't get to 
it because you are tying up the package writing your mailer.  Hope I'm 
making sense here.  I guess what I mean is the ability to have either 1) 
multiple processes that you can switch back and forth between, or 2) temp 
files that keep the info from your mailer (such as where you were exactly 
and a copy of the mailer you were composing, with the cursor position) 
while you jump over to read news.  You might even use this as a way to be 
able to open a saved or unsaved mailer for reference while writing a 
mailer that is to be sent.  This would definitely increase functionality.

Please let me know if I'm going too far, but I'm interested to see if 
such a situation could be done without throwing the pine people into a 
major loop...

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From: Matt Messina <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 21:27:43 -0400 (EDT)

> just bounce over to news to see some information.

You can run two copies of pine.  If your shell supports job control 
(assuming you're running UNIX Pine), and you've set feature-list=
enable-suspend, then you can switch between the two running copies.

The second copy opens in Read Only mode (so you can't delete stuff in 
your remote inbox).  Also, don't forget about the background job, or the 
IMAP connection will be broken.

This is admittedly pretty kludgy, but it would work.
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