Subject: we need pinemail

From: John Jastrow <[email-masked]>
Date: 29 Nov 95 14:00:56 EST

Would you please forward me any information on PineMail?  We'd like to run in on
a SUN with Solaris 2.4 (2.5 soon) as soon as possible.

How do I get the binaries?  Do I need to compile myself?

Do you support this product at the U. of Wash.?  If so, how?  In terms of bug
fixes, updates, etc.

Is there a charge for any services you offer?

Could you send me the application on 4mm tape to below:

Thanks!
** John Jastrow   (615-251-5957) (FAX-5900)
** EDS            [email-masked]
** c/o Baptist Sunday School Board, MSN 130
** 127 9th Ave. North,  Nashville, TN 37234

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 00:02:52 -0800 (PST)

On 29 Nov 1995, John Jastrow wrote:

> Would you please forward me any information on PineMail?  We'd like to
> run in on a SUN with Solaris 2.4 (2.5 soon) as soon as possible.

Most everything we know about Pine can be found at

  http://www.washington.edu/pine

> How do I get the binaries?  Do I need to compile myself?

There are some precompiled binaries available via FTP (see below).
Solaris is one of them.

> Do you support this product at the U. of Wash.?  If so, how?  In terms of bug

We support the 50,000 Pine users at the University of Washington.
We freely share the results of those efforts with the other 5 million Pine
users around the world.  Occasionaly folks on the Pine team take their own
free or family time to try to help others (but it never ceases to amaze us
how many people outside of UW *expect* us to support them.)

There are rumors of a new version coming along, but we don't try to guess
release dates anymore.

> Is there a charge for any services you offer?

In general our software is available for free,
and we don't currently sell any services.

> Could you send me the application on 4mm tape to below:

Sorry, no.  It's available via anonymous ftp from

  ftp.cac.washington.edu in the /pine directory

> Thanks!

You're welcome... but you might want to know that your message went to a
world-wide mailing list of people interested in Pine.  To send just to
the UW Pine development team, use the address "[email-masked]"

You'll get an immediate machine-generated acknowledgement that sez you may
never hear from us again (using wording ripped off from Netscape :),
but we do try to at least read everything that comes in...

-teg

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 00:28:26 -0800

Pine is available on the Internet via anonymous FTP:
	ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pine.tar.Z
Prebuilt binaries for various versions of Unix Pine are on:
	ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/unix-bin/
Prebuilt binaries for various TCP/IP stacks on DOS are on:
	ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pcpine/

We release updates periodically.  Pine 3.91 was released a year ago.  The
next release, Pine 3.92, will be a major update.

We accept bug reports at [email-masked], but we can't
guarantee that you'll get a fast response (or any response at all) due to
the huge volume of messages that we get.  Presumably, you'd rather have us
fixing bugs that spending our time answering the 500th message that
reports the same bug or every feature suggestion.  We do read every
message, though.

We don't charge.

We aren't in the business of shipping tapes; sorry.  Several vendors of
freeware CD-ROMs include Pine in their distribution.

> ** 127 9th Ave. North,  Nashville, TN 37234

-- Mark --

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