Subject: Tailoring Pine

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 10:14 +0000 (GMT)

Questions relating to Pine Port to VMS

         I have users that want to see the word 'CREATE' rather than
         COMPOSE a mail message (they generally want to re-design the screen
         and the order in which options appear).

         They want to add their own fields to the address-book - e.g.
         extension number.

         Is this possible?  Or should I tell them to be happy for what they
         get.

         Thanks in advance

         Sara Appleyard

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From: "Alan J. Flavell" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 21:23:24 GMT

>          Questions relating to Pine Port to VMS

You could have mentioned that in the subject field.   Now, are
we talking Yehavi's free port here, or one of the chargeable jobs?
I only know about the former.  You understand of course that none
of these ports are officially supported by Washington...

>          and the order in which options appear).

Picky

>          Is this possible? 

Since you've got the source, everything's "possible".  Is it
cost effective?  Is it robust against future releases?  Are you
willing to invest the maintenance commitment for the future?

I have a couple of fixes for local problems, that are not too
much effort to migrate from one release to another, but I'd still
prefer not to have to schlepp them along.

> Or should I tell them to be happy for what they
>          get.

You took the words right out of my mouth!  ;-)

You might find something useful in my notes:
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7Eflavell/vms-pine.html

though nothing that's specifically related to your questions.

good luck.