Subject: Help! Braodcast address change and other probs

From: [email-masked] (Andree Hurley)
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 23:57:54 GMT

First problem:  Using Telnet and can't seem to get the delete key to work.

2)  In Pine, ^C is not responding, other keys are

3)  I would like to broadcast an address change to my address book.  Is 
this possible?

4)  Or, if I include my three seperate lists in bcc, can I tell Pine to 
delete duplicates?

5)  Somehow Pine crashed after I had been working on problems 3 and 4 and 
all my work (an hours worth) of deleting duplicate addresses was lost.  
Sometimes Pine will save the message to be resumed later but not this 
time. Why?

Thanks for the help in advance, I am very frustrated!

Andree
[email-masked]

---

From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 18:32:56 -0800 (PST)

> 2)  In Pine, ^C is not responding, other keys are

Some communications software intercepts ^C.  A work-around in Pine is 
that you can type ESC ESC c to get the same thing as a ^C.  If that 
works, that means your software is intercepting the ^C before it gets to 
Pine.
 
> 3)  I would like to broadcast an address change to my address book.  Is 

I think you mean that you have the same address in several different 
lists in your address book, and you'd like to change them all.  There is 
no easy way to accomplish that from within Pine.  You could use an editor 
outside of Pine and use the editor's global substitute command to do it.  
You have to be sure not to change tabs into spaces or add or subtract any 
tabs, though.  (You should make a backup copy first.)

Something you could do to help with this problem in the future is to use 
nicknames in your address book lists.  That is, the list members can be 
nicknames that appear elsewhere in the address book (or some other 
address book of yours).  That way, if that address changed you'd only 
have to change it in one place and it would propagate to the lists at run 
time.

> 4)  Or, if I include my three seperate lists in bcc, can I tell Pine to 

No, we haven't done that.  Typically (in my experience, anyway) the mail 
transport agent will eliminate the duplicate copies for you when it sends 
the mail.

> Sometimes Pine will save the message to be resumed later but not this 

I'm not exactly sure what you're saying you lost.  Address book changes 
are written out to the address book file as you make them, so you can't 
lose more than the change you're working on (unless it manages to blast 
the file or something).  If you do get crashes we would like to hear 
about it ([email-masked]) along with as much information as you 
can give us.  There is a Bug report bug in the main menu in 3.91 to send 
a bug report to us.  If you are using version 3.90, there were some bugs 
that are fixed in 3.91, the current release.

> Thanks for the help in advance, I am very frustrated!

I hope that helps a little.
 
> [email-masked]

Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle