Subject: Pine SZ & MIME vs. UUENCODING binary mail files

From: Chester Paul S'groi <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 10:49:02 -0800

First item -  Downloading in Pine discussion:

I notice that it is possible in pipe to Unix commands while in Pine 3.91
on a Digital Unix box by setting up this option in the SETUP/CONFIG file. 
Once I noticed this feature, I thought it would be neat to see if I could
pipe to SZ while viewing a message so that I could have Pine send my
message via ZModem to my home machine.  However, when I did |sz while
viewing the message I wanted to send, I only got as far as the ZModem
options menu.  Doing |sz -b produced the same result.  I need to somehow
tell SZ what filename to send but there appears no way to do this.  Any
ideas of where I could go from there?  Should this maybe be added as a
feature for the next release of Pine?  What I mean is, could Pine be
developed in such a way so that the user is given an option of sending the
message they are viewing via a transfer protocol like Kermit or ZModem
instead of having to export the message to their main directory and stuff? 
Yes, I know that one can SZ files in one's mail directories from one's
shell but the disadvantage of doing this is that all the single mail
messages in a Pine mail folder are combined in a single file.  Enabling
this "proposed" feature would get around this.  What I am talking about is
setting up Pine to do what lynx does when one chooses the download option.

Second Item - Sending Binary files through mail: Mime vs. Uuencode

I notice that it is possible to send binary files through e-mail (like 
GIF picture files, spreadsheets, programs, MS Word files, etc) by either
first uuencoding the file and sending it through Pine or by using Pine's 
built in MIME encooder.  My query is this.  I often have students send
files to me and they often have problems grasping computer concepts.  Is 
it better for the file [and the mail system as a whole] to send binaries 
as uuencoded or MIME files?  Please advise.  Thanks! :)

Regards,

Chester Paul S'groi
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From: Vladimir Solnicky Vladimír Solnický <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 23:22:44 +0100 (MET)

> setting up Pine to do what lynx does when one chooses the download option.

If you do not use a printer, you can set your `printer' as `sz %s'
(without quotes), so when you press `Y' and then Yes (or enter), your
message will be sent to you via ZMODEM protocol. But it works only if you
do not need to print. Or you can try to pipe to something like `cat >
/tmp/pine.$$; sz /tmp/pine.$$; rm /tmp/pine.$$', but I didn't try it. 

Hope it helps, V. S.

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