Subject: Re: reading mail in PC, possible?

From: "Ben T. Feese" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 08:45:41 -0400 (EDT)

On 31 May 1995, Nancy McGough wrote:

> Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]> writes:
> >On Sat, 27 May 1995, Special Weapons And Tactics wrote:
> >> 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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Nancy,

I am able to VIEW Unix pine folders with my PC pine (I ftp the Unix pine 
folders from my work Unix account to my home PC where I run PC Pine for 
Windows/Winsock (not a "real" MS-Windows implementation of pine).

PROBLEM IS...the Unix pine folder is READ-ONLY, so that although I can 
view the individual articles and can copy them (one-by-one) to a PC pine 
folder, I cannot *delete* them from the Unix pine folder under PC pine, 
nor can I do a MASS copy of the Unix folder to the Pc folder format.

Can you or anyone else suggest a way to ease this Unix/PC pine folder 
format incompatibility?  I am somewhat of a pine newbie, but is there a 
way to find out the particularities of the format difference between a 
Unix pine folder and a PC pine folder, so that perhaps one could hack out 
a conversion utility?  (some of my Unix pine folders are 2-3 megabytes 
and article-by-article conversion is not very enticing!).

Also any word on when there will appear a PC for Windows incarnation that 
has all the neat features of the latest Unix pine version?

Thanks!

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From: "Vladimir Solnicky (Vladimír Solnický)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 22:53:51 +0200 (METDST)

> nor can I do a MASS copy of the Unix folder to the Pc folder format.

I think the select (;) command IS available in pcpine for Winsocks, but 
you have to enable it by going to Setup/Config menu and setting the 
enable-agregate-command or something like that (sorry, I am asleep and 
don't eant to start a PC and MS Windows to check it).

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From: [email-masked] (Marcos Rubinstein)
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 03:44:33 GMT

In the simtel archives there is a program called "readmail" that
  will allow you to read *and* manipulate pine folders without
  needing to convert them to pc ascii.

  It is not an offline mailer... reads mail but can not "send"
  mail.
  What I do, when can't have direct connection with my host... is to
  download (from a friend's machine) all my inbox... then read it
  and manipulate it with readmail, and if I need to write... I do
  use "pico" for pc... compose the mail... and then I upload and
  when in pine (unix) use the ^R (read file)... Clunky but
  effective.

  Waiting for the day that pine *is* an offline mailer :)
  Pucho

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 09:23:49 -0700 (PDT)

Nancy,
PC-Pine is currently most comfortable having a network connection (used
for remote folder access, authentication before sending, and actually
sending).  As you've heard before, true offline support will be coming
in a future release.

In the meantime, *if* you configure PC-Pine to have a local folder
collection (as the first one listed), then you can use the -f flag to open
that folder without PC-Pine trying to access the remote inbox over the
net.  In the future there will be a way to access a *local* folder even
when the default folder collection is specified to be on a remote server.

-teg

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From: [email-masked] (Marcos Rubinstein)
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 03:44:33 GMT