Subject: pine GUI ?

From: [email-masked] (Roger Merat)
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 1994 07:49:29 GMT

When one looks at pine on a Unix workstation, the first impression is often
negative because a User Agent should have a graphic user interface on systems
that support graphic.

Is there a good reason not to develop a GUI for pine (not to replace, but
in addition to the current full screen interface) ?
If not, is someone working on a pine GUI ?

  Roger Merat               [email-masked]
  University of Geneva      c=ch/admd=arcom/prmd=switch/o=unige/ou=uni2a/s=merat
  Switzerland               tel: +4122/7057691      fax: +4122/3202927

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From: [email-masked] (Lucio Chiappetti)
Date: 25 Nov 1994 10:24:25 -0600

In article <1994Nov25.094929.1@ugun2a>, [email-masked] (Roger Merat) write:
|> When one looks at pine on a Unix workstation, the first impression is often
|> negative because a User Agent should have a graphic user interface on systems
|> that support graphic.
|> 
   I do not agree.
   When I had to relinquish my earlier mail system (Rice Mail on an
   IBM VM mainframe) because the IBM was going to be discontinued
   (I was continuing to use it JUST for mail even if I had a work-
   station on my desk since two years), I looked into various
   possibilities, and I found those based on GUIs unbearable (I
   tried Ultrix dxmail and Sun's mailtool; also VMS GUI for mail is
   worse than line mode VMSMail, although slightly better than the
   Unix GUIs).

   I believe that one of the greatest advantages of Pine (particularly
   but not necessarily if used in conjunction with imapd) is that you
   can use the SAME interface from the workstation, from a PC, from a
   local or remote terminal (you do not need to use dreadful
   /usr/ucb/mail when you are logged in from elsewhere !)

   It is always possible (as we do here) to run Pine in a separate
   dxterm or xterm window.

   Long live Pine
   
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