Subject: Latest version of Pine.

From: [email-masked]
Date: 2 May 1995 16:00:07 GMT

I am running Pine v3.89 and am having problems with my spell checker.  I   
just says could not find file... Does anyone have a solution to this??    
Also where can I get the latest for Linux and possibly for my pc. 
 
Next If anyone has info on software for a POP server that would be great! 
 
Thanks.

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From: [email-masked] (Vic Walker)
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 05:23:46 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> you wrote:
: I am running Pine v3.89 and am having problems with my spell checker.  I   
: just says could not find file... Does anyone have a solution to this??    
: Also where can I get the latest for Linux and possibly for my pc. 
:  
: Next If anyone has info on software for a POP server that would be great! 
:  
: Thanks. 

Let me second [email-masked]'s request.  I have not been able to get the
spell checker to work for Pine under Linux either.  The version is Pine
3.91.  The Pico version is 2.5, and I'm using ispell 3.1.08 for the
speller.  When I try to spell check (^T), I get the ispell help screen,
which suggests that ispell is being called but the correct file name is
not being passed on.  I asked about this a few days ago, but never saw an
answer. 

If the Pine/Pico experts in Washington State (or elsewhere) could help 
us, you'll have at least two grateful users (fbennet and me.)

					Vic Walker
					[email-masked]

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 10:59:17 -0700 (PDT)

The current Linux port of Pine assumes that the standard spell checker is
/bin/spell and that it works the same as on other Unix versions.  To get 
ispell to work, see the question about ispell in the Pine FAQ.  Here is 
an excerpt:

    2. Pine already checks the SPELL environment variable so you can
       create the following script and name it spell. 

     #!/bin/sh
     ispell -l | sort | uniq 

   To make Ctrl-T in pine use 'ispell' and your '$HOME/.ispell_words'
       dictionary: 
          + make the above script file 'spell' in your home directory 
          + make it executable: 'chmod u+x spell' 
          + set the environment variable SPELL: 'setenv SPELL
            $HOME/spell' (you may include this command in your .profile,
            .cshrc or .login file) 

       Now, when you press Ctrl-T in Pine, you will execute the ispell
       program, and it will recognize words stored in the private
       dictionary. The screen display will look like pine is using the
       standard spell-checking program. Unfortunately, this method does
       not allow the user to Insert words into the private dictionary.
       However, this might be useful with a central script file (setenv
       SPELL ...) and a central private dictionary (ispell -p ...) to
       provide a common private dictionary for an entire workgroup. The
       manager could add items to the private dictionary; ordinary pine
       users would use the private dictionary (Ctrl-T), but they could
       not change it. 

|\ |  |\/|  David L. Miller    [email-masked]  (206) 685-6240
|/ |_ |  |  Software Engineer, Pine Development Team   (206) 685-4045 (FAX)
University of Washington, Networks & Distributed Computing, JE-20
4545 15th Ave NE, Seattle WA 98105, USA

On Fri, 5 May 1995, Vic Walker wrote:

> Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 05:23:46 GMT
> From: Vic Walker <[email-masked]>
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: Latest version of Pine.
> 
>

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From: Vic Walker <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 03:14:33 -0700 (PDT)

Thanks very much for your help.  I was tearing my hair out trying to fix 
this!

					Vic Walker

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