Subject: Re: stopping the "Request Document" in newly installed Pine

From: [email-masked] (Wet-Sprocket)
Date: 18 Feb 1995 04:50:24 GMT

Comes here Mr. T. L. Scott with this opinion in the "comp.mail.pine" group in
this article on 16 Feb 1995 22:52:36 GMT:

 + My group recently installed Pine on our unix machine, running 
 + NewBSD.  Pine works fine, but each time any one starts the program
 + is asks if you want the Pine Document mail to you.
 + How does one stop this? Or tell Pine that you have seen the message 
 + once and do not need to see it again?

Pine prompts you this if it doesn't find a '.pinerc' file in the $HOME.
Make sure you retain a copy of .pinerc in the home dir. which will have
the last-version-used=3.90+ entry in it.

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From: [email-masked] (T. L. Scott)
Date: 18 Feb 1995 22:47:43 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,

>the last-version-used=3.90+ entry in it.

All the home directories have the .pinerc and those files do have the line:
last-version-used=3.91

However, Pine does no seem to be seeing this file at all and still offering
the ReQuest Document.

Is there anyplace else to look?

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 21:17:58 -0800 (PST)

If Pine is not seeing the .pinerc at all, that would certainly explain it.
I gather you've found other settings ignored to verify this hypothesis.

In order to investigate why Pine is not finding the .pinerc file, you 
might use the bug report command (redirecting it to yourself) and look at 
the config data to see what it found and what it didn't find.

-teg