Subject: Re: forcing mail check

From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 11:36:09 +0100 (BST)

[I accidentally deleted the message I wanted to reply to, but...]

Ed Greshko commented that he'd never seen the PC-Pine source code 
available at Washington, so presumed it wasn't possible for us Mere 
Mortals to build it...

I'd always assumed that the various ".dos" and ".win" files, in 
particular "makefile.win" used by a "build win" would produce you a 
PC-Pine from the same distribution kit as as "normal" UNIX Pine.

Perhaps I was wrong in assuming this?

Mike Brudenell                                               <[email-masked]>
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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 21:34:34 -0800 (GMT)

> Perhaps I was wrong in assuming this?

	Well, you are right.  It is not impossible.  (I'd looked at the
source for pine, older version, and missed the makefile.msc file used
in that version.)  However, most mortals (at least the ones I know) don't
have C compilers on their PCs nor do they have access to the tools 
necessary to add support for the various IP stacks.  Most users of PCs
tend to use applications out of the box.

					Ed

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 14:36:48 -0700 (PDT)

The mail check interval will be configurable in the next version of pine.

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