Subject: Pine/gzipped for SCO

From: Peter Scott <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 94 13:31:11 PDT

Thanks to the person who told me I could find Pine for SCO by ftp at 
soils.agron.iastate.edu

All the files have been compressed with gzip (ie have an extention of .gz).  I 
am not familiar with this compression program.

Can someone please tell me what I need to unzip the files.

Also once I have unzipped the programs I am not sure of what steps I need to 
follow to get it up and running.  If anyone has experience of doing this in SCO 
 then can they please provide a simple step by step list.

Thanks in advance

Peter Scott
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Gunther Anderson)
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 1994 14:34:50 GMT

Peter Scott ([email-masked]) wrote:

: All the files have been compressed with gzip (ie have an extention of 
: .gz).  I am not familiar with this compression program.

: Can someone please tell me what I need to unzip the files.

This is the GNU Zip program from the Free Software Foundation, which you 
can find on prep.ai.mit.edu.  I'm not sure what it takes to build it any 
more, but it doesn't do anything really strange, so you should be able to 
work it out.  It will require a compiler.

: Also once I have unzipped the programs I am not sure of what steps I need to 
: follow to get it up and running.  If anyone has experience of doing this 
: in SCO then can they please provide a simple step by step list.

Pine needs nothing, really, to run, except the program.  When you first 
start it up, it will create a directory "~/mail" to store its folders in, 
and a file .pinerc, which it stores its settings.  It will also look in 
the file /usr/local/lib/pine.conf for a system-level .pinerc.  So, a good 
step-by-step:

Unpack program.
Move to /usr/local/bin/pine, set permissions to 755, owner bin.bin.
Run program.
Take .pinerc as generated, fill in the system-wide fields, copy to
    /usr/local/lib/pine.conf.  Useful system-wide settings are things
    like SMTO-server or features.

That's it.

_HOWEVER_: Within the next couple of days, Pine 3.90 is coming out, which 
has many nice, advanced features, including vastly better MMDF support, 
News posting, implementing some historically unimplemented features, 
etc.  It compiles "out of the box" on SCO Unix, and I'll have the binary 
on soils as soon as I can get it there.

I'd recommend waiting.

Actually, I'd recommend getting a copy of gzip, too.  If there isn't one 
on soils, I'll put one there.  Pine-3.90 will be gzipped, too.

Gunther Anderson

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 1994 09:53:11 -0700 (PDT)

>     like SMTO-server or features.

The preferred method to get your initial pine.conf file is to run

	pine -conf > /usr/local/lib/pine.conf

Although they are similar, there are different settings, defaults, and
comments between a pinerc and pine.conf.  Pine 3.90 will also have a
"-pinerc" option to update the comments and otherwise clean up an old .pinerc
file. 

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