Subject: Saving to floppy disk

From: "Russell D. James" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 22:52:02 -0700 (MST)

Dear friends:

	I am new to this list, so I apologize if this question has been 
asked and answered before.  I access my internet server from a Windows 
3.1 environment, access a UNIX shell server with vi command capability, 
and use PINE 3.89.  
	How do I save a message from my inbox (or any folder) to a floppy disk?

		Russell D. James
		Delta, CO

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 10:55:15 -0500

> 	How do I save a message from my inbox (or any folder) to a floppy disk?

    If you want to save a single message (mail or newsgroup posting), 
probably the simplest way is to use the export command to save it in an 
individual Unix file.  Then exit Pine and just download that file the way 
you would any other.  (There is no single way to do this: it depends on 
what software is available to both your shell account and Windows, so I 
cannot give general instructions applicable to everybody.)  Remember to 
delete the exproted copy of the file.

    You can also download every message in a folder at once, if you wish, 
simply because a folder is itself a single Unix ASCII file.  Just change 
to the directory in which your folders reside and download the whole 
folder by name.

Paul
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