Subject: Windows Pine and SLIP/PPP

From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: 29 Nov 1994 19:22:42 GMT

Hi All,

Is it possible to set Windows Pine up over a SLIP or PPP connection?
If so, do you have any words of wisdom for setting this up?

Thanks much,
Nancy (finally entering the world of GUI Internet!)

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From: Pierre Thibaudeau <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 08:17:40 -0500 (EST)

> If so, do you have any words of wisdom for setting this up?

Note that Windows Pine is labeled PC-Pine for Windows3.1/Winsock.  This
means that it would work with any Winsock compliant TCP/IP stack.  There
are numerous Winsock implementations that supports both LAN and serial
(SLIP/PPP) connections.  Among all of these, the famous Trumpet WINSOCK.  
And PC-Pine-W works perfectly on it without any special setting for 
beeing over a serial connection.

As usual, there is no magic.

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From: Laurence Lundblade <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 03:58:48 -0500 (EST)

Sure, it works pretty well.  I've run both Windows Pine and regular UNIX Pine
with IMAP over a SLIP link, and even do proxy IMAP over two SLIP links at
once. (Proxy is something like {java.island-resort.com}{csgrad.cs.vt.edu}inbox )

I've found Windows Pine to be slow to read mail in some cases because it
doesn't build the full cache that Unix Pine does.  Sorting large mailboxes is
almost out of the question with Windows Pine, but it's fine with UNIX Pine. 
I know it's impossible to increase the cache for DOS, but it would be a big
improvement for Windows.  Heck my copy of Frame maker pages continuously even
if it's the only thing running in 8Mb, so their precidence for using vast
amounts of memory.  Composing with windows Pine is quite different.  It's
extremely snappy! 

LL