Subject: Invoking pine for newsreading

From: Mike Roch <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 16:34:26 GMT

In Pine 3.07 I could open a session on a newsgroup from the command line 
quite concisely:

	pine -if \*comp.mail.pine

The tersest I can manage with 3.90 is 

	pine -if \*\{news/nntp\}comp.mail.pine

Am I overlooking something obvious?

Mike

==============================================================================
Mike Roch, Computer Services Centre,                          Tel: 0734 318430
The University, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF                Fax: 0734 753094

---

From: Mike Roch <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 16:26:06 GMT

The best so far is 	pine -if '*{news/nntp}'comp.mail.pine

Not much better! I can't really see why pine couldn't behave 
as it did, ie   pine -if \*comp.mail.pine 	where "*" implies connect 
to the news host as specified in .pinerc/pine.conf

Mike

On Mon, 17 Oct 1994, Nancy McGough wrote:
> Hi, Did you find a better way to do this?
> 
> In comp.mail.pine you write: