Subject: Any trouble installing Pine on AIX?

From: [email-masked] (Bernard Martin)
Date: 8 Jun 1995 05:14:04 GMT

This is a followup to a previous message I sent to the list.

Has anyone using Pine on a system running AIX (particularly AIX 3.2.5) 
experienced particular problems?  Responses from both users and systems 
administrators are welcome at my e-mail address (below), or to the group 
if you feel responses are of general interest.

The local system administrator refuses to install Pine on our AIX 
machines because he claims that it will cause extra work for him and his 
staff.  I don't believe it, and neither have others.  Is Pine an 
administrative bear?

Right now the system is running Z-Mail, a hideous commerical product 
which is without an online manual and is a pain to use and customize.  
Pine (or anything) would be better than this.

Thanks in advance.

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Bernard Martin <[email-masked]>

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From: [email-masked] (George L. Westlund)
Date: 8 Jun 1995 11:29:52 -0700

[email-masked] (Bernard Martin) said...
>Is Pine an administrative bear?

Fully 80% of our users (16000+ accounts) use pine for their mail interface
because of its ease of use.  The only major problem caused by this is its
use of memory (about 1.2MB minimum, plus the size of the mailbox).  It has
not been an administrative problem at all with the excpetion that it has
increased our mail traffic by being easier for the beginning users to use. 

It installed with little difficulty and provide a host of configurable 
options for both the user and the administrator.  It also provides an 
easy to use NETNews interface for both reading and posting news (version 
3.91).
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