Subject: Re: pine -f foldername

From: "Randall S. Winchester" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 23:27:49 -0400

On Thu, 27 Oct 1994, Brad wrote:

> On 27 Oct 1994, Adam Bentley wrote:
> 
> > 	pine -f ../somefileinthisdirectory
> 
> 	Well, personally, seeing as I never have any folders anywhere
> other than in ~/mail (and I guess this would be true for most people,
> also), I'd rather have to type "../" once in a blue moon than "mail/" 
> just about every time I want to open a particulat folder on startup. 
> 
> 	--Simon. 
> 
Well, I for one have a lot of stuff in ../News and as postmaster often
find my self doing the equivilent of mail -f someonesmailproblemfolder.

Also there are all those /usr/spool/majordomo/*/archives.

And lost of departments like to archive special things that get stuck 
under HTML eventially.

And then there is thie other annoying bug in Pine...
every time I hit ^T to Spell it asks if some part of
"On Thu, 27 Oct 1994, Brad wrote:" is spellt correctly

In fact I really dislike the cursor starting on that first line

Every time I reply I have to hit \n\n\n\n^p^p^p^p to give my self some 
breathing room if I want to reply at the top (usual case with shot messages)
Otherwise the "On Thu, 27 Oct 1994, Brad wrote:" line gets nicely split 
into multiple lines my one of pines very nice long line trimers....

Seems like an easy mode, I do not know why every body does not have this
complaint.

Randall

BTW, I am not one of those "I use Elm, but recomend pine for the masses "
people. I have switched from many years of berkeley Mail, never liking 
the habits of MH.

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From: Tin-Mala <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 15:12:13 -0400 (EDT)

Is it possible in pine to mark several messages in the inbox (or any 
folder) and print all of them in one batch with a single print command? 
Pl. respond with reference to both Pine 3.89 and .90 as we're using both 
versions on our campus.
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From: "Steven D. Majewski" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 17:00:55 -0400 (EDT)

> Pl. respond with reference to both Pine 3.89 and .90 as we're using both 

With Pine 3.90 or 3.91, you can select ( ";" ) a group of messages
and then Apply Print ( "A Y" ) to them. ( Or, as I sometimes also do, 
Apply pipe ("|") to a unix command ( "enscript -2 -r -G -bSubject" ))

I don't know if there is a way in 3.89 to do that. 
Why don't you upgrade all to 3.91 ?  ( a good idea for several other
reasons - several big fixes, etc. ) 

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