Subject: PC-Pine ~/.addressbook and ~/.signature files from Remote Host

From: [email-masked] (Diane Smith)
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 00:31:18 GMT

Using PC-Pine 3.91, how do we get it to get the ~/.addressbook and
~/.signature files from the remote host, just as is done with
the folder-collections?

Any information would be appreciated.

-- 
Diane Smith
Academic Computing Services
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA  98225

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 21:10:00 -0800 (PST)

Diane,
For now, those files need to *appear* to be available locally on the PC.
Thus, in order to use the same files that Unix Pine sees, you need to 
"mount" them on your PC using a file service protocol such as NFS or SMB.

In the future, we expect to have a more self-contained method of 
accessing remote support files.

Since signature files don't usually change much, you can keep a second 
copy on your PC (named PINE.SIG), but you probably don't want to have two 
copies of your addressbook, unless you update it very rarely.

-teg

p.s. the same issues apply to .newsrc files.