Subject: RFI - news

From: Peter Grace <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 22:53:46 -0400 (EDT)

Hi 
please send info re: pine's use as a newsreader.

How about cutting and pasting to/from multiple buffers/files using pico?

Cheers,
peter

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 13:37:08 -0700 (PDT)

Pine 3.89 can be used as a news *reader* by setting the news-collections
variable in your .pinerc file and generating a .newsrc file with another
reader.  Pine 3.90 will allow posting and subscription management. 

Pico currently only supports a single file at a time.  There is a requested
enhancement on the list that would preserve the "cut" buffer across messages,
but that is not yet implemented.

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From: [email-masked] (Rutger vd GeVEL)
Date: 30 May 1994 10:48:17 GMT

> reader.  Pine 3.90 will allow posting and subscription management. 

Very impressive! But I have a couple of questions:
1) When will Pine 3.90 available for the masses?
2) Will Pine support Metamail && || mailcap files?
3) Does Pine also include MIME support in the news-reader functionality?
4) Did Yehavi's VMS-port of Pine make it into 3.90 and again what about
   questions 2 and 3?

Thanks in advance.
Rutger

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 16:47:01 -0700 (PDT)

> 1) When will Pine 3.90 available for the masses?

Target date is the Summer Solstice.

> 2) Will Pine support Metamail && || mailcap files?

Pine 3.90 will include mailcap support derived from Metamail 2.6.  Most, but
not all, types are supported. 

> 3) Does Pine also include MIME support in the news-reader functionality?

Yes.

> 4) Did Yehavi's VMS-port of Pine make it into 3.90 and again what about

Yehavi's VMS port has not yet been incorporated :(

The major internal restructuring that has been taking place has made it very
difficult to incorporate new ports in parallel with those changes.  If Pine
3.90 is otherwise stable, I would expect a maintenance release just to
incorporate fixes to ports we do not handle directly...

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From: [email-masked] (Ran Ever-Hadani)
Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 04:16:33 GMT

>Target date is the Summer Solstice.

Please forgive my ignorance, but what and when is Summer Solstice?

-- Ran

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From: John Lamp <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 22:44:23 +1000 (EST)

> Please forgive my ignorance, but what and when is Summer Solstice?

Well, in December around the 24th according to my calendar, but I think,
as far as I am concerned, he means the Winter Solstice - June 24th.

I'm certainly not swimming at present :-)

Cheers
John

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 08:43:57 -0700 (PDT)

> Please forgive my ignorance, but what and when is Summer Solstice?
First day of summer.

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From: [email-masked] (Ian MacPhedran)
Date: 31 May 1994 17:41:54 GMT

David L Miller ([email-masked]) wrote:

: On Tue, 31 May 1994, Ran Ever-Hadani wrote:

: > In <[email-masked]> David L Miller <[email-masked]> writes:
: > 
: > Please forgive my ignorance, but what and when is Summer Solstice?
: > 
: First day of summer.

According to my desk calendar, 1994-June-21 14:48 GMT is the summer solstice
this year. (It's a Tuesday.)

Ian.
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From: "Andrew B. Sweger" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 11:44:10 -0700 (PDT)

> this year. (It's a Tuesday.)

In the northern hemi-sphere, that is. Winter Solstice for our friends 
down under. :) Of course, for those of you in the beyond the orbit 
of Neptune, 3.90 will have already been released by the time you read this.

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From: [email-masked] (Daniel Ford)
Date: 31 May 1994 20:35:02 GMT

>this year. (It's a Tuesday.)

Yes, but to all these posters, Greenwich time is 8 hours or more ahead of them, 
if summer time does not deceive me, so the solstice will come along about 
sunrise. Still Tuesday, tho. :-) 
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