Subject: Re: Pine Global Address Book

From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 21:30:10 -0700 (PDT)

Wait for Pine 3.90, which is due out any day now... 

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On 24 Aug 1994, Greg E. Myers wrote:

> 
> Does anyone know of a way to do a system-wide global address book for
> pine that would be available to all users while allowing each user to 
> also maintain his/her own personal address book in Pine???  
> 
> Greg Myers
> [email-masked]
> [email-masked]
> 
> 
>

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From: gem@planetx (Greg E. Myers)
Date: 24 Aug 1994 22:50:19 GMT

Greg Myers
[email-masked]
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From: [email-masked] (Gunther Anderson)
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 02:39:44 GMT

Greg E. Myers (gem@planetx) wrote:

: Does anyone know of a way to do a system-wide global address book for
: pine that would be available to all users while allowing each user to 
: also maintain his/her own personal address book in Pine???  

No way to do that 3.89, but 3.90 does it quite well.  Now, from a user's
perspective, there might be a little confusion about which addressbook to
look at, but both are automatically searched when a nickname is entered. 
Actually, 3.90 goes one better, allowing an unlimited (or at least plural)
number of local addressbooks.  So, if I really wanted, I could keep
separate addressbooks for different purposes, all active simultaneously. 
The system addressbook is simply a special case of an addressbook, being 
read-only from Pine, no mater what the permissions on the file itself 
are.  I don't know how they've handled the [T]ake command, which 
addressbook it goes into, but that's because I haven't looked into it.

So, like everything else this week, 3.89->no, 3.90->yes.

Gunther Anderson

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From: [email-masked] (Elmar Kurgpold)
Date: 25 Aug 1994 11:02:47 -0700

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Gee, with all the great enhancments and new features that I keep hearing
about in the next version, I wonder whether it would be appropriate to
call it Pine 4.0 instead of Pine 3.90.  It seems that for almost every
request for new features that I've seen on this list has been answered by,
"It'll be in 3.90." And if you don't revise the version number, what the
heck is going to happen when you DO get to 4.0?  The Super Deluxe Boy
Scout from Hell Swiss Army Knife of MUA's, I presume? 

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	Elmar

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