Subject: reading mail in PC, possible?

From: h9470007@hkusua (Special Weapons And Tactics)
Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 07:42:24 GMT

Hello,
	I login in Unix and read mail by pine and saved the mail in the 
folders. Is that posssible to read the folders in PC like reading it in 
pine. I heard there is something called PC-pine. Is the purpose of the 
PC-pine can provide the facilities that I requested?
	'coz this is convenience for me to read the one folder containing 
many mail at home.
	I mean d/l the folder back home from the Unix, and read the 
folder at home PC.
						SWAT
					(The Police Force) :)

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 19:14:23 -0400

On Sat, 27 May 1995, Special Weapons And Tactics wrote:

> pine.  [...]

    I think I understand what you are getting at.  With the exception of 
the INBOX that actually reads the system spool, the folders Pine reads 
and manipulates are simply files.  (I use Unix Pine 3.91.)  Provided you 
have read acces to the files/folders -- and if you didn't Pine couldn't 
at least show them in read-only mode -- then you can download them to 
your PC with whatever file transfer protocol you have available to work 
with (Zmodem, Xmodem, Kermit, etc.).

    Just back out of Pine and locate the directory where Pine keeps the
folders.  Most likely it will be a subdirectory of your home directory,
quite probably called "mail."  The individual folders will be in files of
the same name.  Just download the one you want to your PC and read it with
your favorite editor or file viewer.  This works on a local collection of
folders other than the INBOX proper and is only a reading technique.

Paul
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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: 31 May 1995 12:43:02 -0700

Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]> writes:
>> Is that posssible to read the folders in PC like reading it in 
>> pine.  [...]
>
>Just download the one you want to your PC and read it with
>your favorite editor or file viewer.

And possible choices for viewing the folders on your PC are PC-Pine
for DOS and PS-Pine for Windows, which are available from:

  ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pcpine

I think that in order to use these to view a folder on your PC you
need to be connected to the Net - does anyone know if that's true?

Thanks,
Nancy

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