Subject: Re: Global addressboks for Pine

From: Bill Wachspress <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 16:06:03 -0500

On 29 Mar 1995, Lew Newby Jr. wrote:

> How can I create a Global address book and a correct reference to it 
> in the .pinerc? Also would this work in PC-Pine?

In pine 3.91, I added a global addressbook from the 'S'etup 'C'onfig menu.

BUT if you want to modify the addressbook from pine after creating it 
then you need to implement it as a shared addressbook rather than a 
global addressbook.

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From: [email-masked] (Sean Dougherty)
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 04:46:18 GMT

Lew Newby Jr. ([email-masked]) wrote:
: How can I create a Global address book and a correct reference to it 
: in the .pinerc? Also would this work in PC-Pine?

Here we have a global address book in /usr/local/lib we call it 
TECH_AMA_ADDRESSES (you can call it anything you like)

Also in /usr/local/lib our pine.conf (so everybody see's the same address 
book) has an entry like:

# List of file or path names for global/shared addressbook(s).
# Default: none
# Syntax: optnl-label path-name
global-address-book=/usr/local/lib/TECH_AMA_ADDRESSES

# List of file or path names for personal addressbook(s).
# Default: ~/.addressbook (Unix) or \PINE\ADDRBOOK (PC)
# Syntax: optnl-label path-name
address-book=

(you .pinerc file will look the same, but I recomend that you use the 
pine.conf so that you do not have to edit everybodies .pinerc file)

AS FAR AS THE PC VERSION -- I thought I had that working once, but my 
machine is the one that is experimented on with new software and now it 
doesn't.  As soon as I get my pc back up though, I'll try to drop you a line.

Also I have a long (11M postscript) document on how to use pine for 
absolute beginners.  If you would like to see the first couple of pages 
to see if it is something you could use let me know.

good luck

sean

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 23:09:57 -0700 (PDT)

> doesn't.  As soon as I get my pc back up though, I'll try to drop you a line.

If you are talking about sharing an addressbook between a Unix system and 
a PC (using some remote filesystem) this won't work with Pine3.91 (due to 
a bug), but it will be fixed for 3.92.

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

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From: David Dumaresq <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 22:46:52 -0700 (PDT)

> a bug), but it will be fixed for 3.92.

Any word on when 3.92 will be ready, also if it will be a while is there 
any reason to move from 3.90 (Solaris) ?

Cheers!
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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 10:21:32 -0700 (PDT)

> any reason to move from 3.90 (Solaris) ?

No date has been set for 3.92 yet.  3.90 did have several bugs that were 
fixed in 3.91.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 11:41:02 -0700

We don't know when 3.92 will be ready yet, but I do recommend upgrading to
3.91, since 3.90 has some bugs that can cause loss of your addressbook,
etc. 

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On 9 Apr 1995, David Dumaresq wrote:

> Date: 9 Apr 1995 22:52:27 -0700
> From: David Dumaresq <[email-masked]>
> Newgroups: comp.mail.pine
> Subject: Re: Global addressboks for Pine
>