Subject: Pine and PC-Pine 3.92 now available

From: Michael Seibel <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 09:43:26 -0800 (PST)

This note is to announce the availability of the Pine Message System
version 3.92.  This release represents an evolutionary step forward in
Pine functionality.  Nearly every facet of Pine's behavior has been
improved in one way or another.

In the interest of brevity, the full list of changes and enhancements
isn't included here, but some of the main improvements are:

   o Optional message filtering hooks (can be used for PGP integration)
   o Extensive address and list management improvements
   o Additional printing capabilities
   o Improved MIME and non-ascii support (mime.types, 1522, 8BITMIME)
   o Improved PC-Pine for Windows (GUI amenities & 32bit version)
   o Some modest performance improvements
   o Many new personal-preference options and command improvements
   o Hooks for integral file transfer between desktop computer & Unix Pine
   o Builtin signature editor
   o Improved user feedback when Pine is busy or waiting

A more detailed list can be found in the built-in release notes ("R" off
the Main Menu).  Even more information can be found via:

        http://www.cac.washington.edu/pine
and:
        ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/docs

Please bear in mind the following caveat:  While we believe this version
is reasonably stable, we consider it a "beta" code release.  It has been
exposed to limited testing, but has yet to be proven in a production
environment.

Pine version 3.92 source is available in:

        ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pine.tar.Z
and
        ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pine.tar.gz

PC-Pine in available in:

        ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pcpine

and precompiled binaries for the various systems we have direct access to
are available in:

        ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/unix-bin
and
        ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/unix-bin-compressed

We'd like to thank the countless many who have taken the time to send us
valuable bug reports and suggestions, and welcome any comments you may
have regarding this release.  We hope you find Pine 3.92 useful!

Sincerely,

The Pine Development Team

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From: kremžská HOŘČICE <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 20:51:47 +0100 (MET)

On Tue, 19 Mar 1996, Michael Seibel wrote:

> version 3.92.  [...]

>         ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pine.tar.gz

    My apologies in advance for this lengthy posting, which I am crossposting
in English to the Czech/Slovak discussion group, when a short notice would
probably have been more than adequate...

    This new release of Pine is being unofficially mirrored for the benefit
of users in the Czech Republic, and in Slovakia, and in locations which are
a quick hop away when you don't want to struggle to get the program from
its original source at ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pine.tar.Z  or in
GNU zipped form as pine.tar.gz.

    Users in CZ can find most of the Pine release available from
ftp://ftp.radio.cz/mail/pine
This will include the source and binaries as found on the Washington server.
There are also parts of the IMAP archive from here and from CMU available
for people who want to make use of the IMAP capabilities of Pine.  However,
there is no guarantee that the IMAP utilities available are as up-to-date
as they are on the servers from which they were obtained.  Please be patient
if the entire release is not yet available -- the connection from here is
slow and heavily-used, which is why I make this mirror available.

    Users in SK may use this FTP server, or may find it easier to obtain
this release from Kosice at
ftp://ftp.tuke.sk/pub/barry.bouwsma/pine   (no, I didn't set this up.)
However, from this server, you will probably only find the source code in
gzipped form, docs, the PC-Pine versions, and gzipped Linux binaries.

    The original distribution is of course at ftp.cac.washington.edu, and
users are advised to turn to this server for the most authoritative versions
of Pine.  I will PGP-sign those files which I have made available, but this
should not be taken as proof that the files are authentic -- instead a
trusted user should obtain the releases from Washington and verify that the
copies I have made available have not been altered from the official copies.
My PGP public key can be found by fingering  [email-masked] .  Note
that I have no connection with the Pine authors, and am merely providing
this mirror, as well as my dubious claim that the programs have not been
tampered with, as a courtesy for users in this part of the world who would
rather not suffer through the hideously slow (when successful) FTP transfers
one is lucky to have by day.

    I am also making available a binary for SGI, compiled on IRIX5.3, for
users who want to place these binaries in /usr/local/bin or some similar
appropriate place.  This will be on the radio.cz FTP site.  You will have
to wait for an inst'able release to be provided from elsewhere.  You may
probably want to get the SGI binary from elsewhere anyway to be sure that
the version you run e-mails your password to someone else and not to me.
(1/2 :-)

The remainder of this announcement is being posted only to pine-info, which
is available as comp.mail.pine .  However, because it will be several days
until this post is seen here via Usenet, I am making this personal announcement
available from the radio.cz FTP server as /mail/pine/zpravy .

Barry Bouwsma, Radio Praha
<[email-masked]>  for public PGP key

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From: Kochisse <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 16:22:06 -0500 (EST)

> The Pine Development Team
I can't get your damn mail out of my mail box.  I also lost all access to 
my previous mail.  HELP!!!

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From: Ian Russell Ollmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 22:20:55 -0800

Hooray!!

Ian

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: 25 Mar 1996 07:11:53 -0800

I'm looking forward to using the new Pine - thanks for providing a
great tool for all of the Internet!  When I ask my sys admins to
install it, do I need to ask them to uncomment this line:

 #define ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM

Or has this feature changed in any way, e.g., default is to allow
changing from or the line above has changed in some way?  What is
the name of the file it's in?

Thanks much,
Nancy

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 11:03:37 -0800 (PST)

Nancy,
This has not changed... so yes, you'll need to uncomment and recompile.

-teg

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From: Simon <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 19:27:11 +0000

On 25 Mar 1996, Nancy McGough wrote:

> I'm looking forward  to using the new  Pine - thanks for  providing a great
> tool for all of the Internet! When I  ask my sys admins to install it, do I
> need to ask them to uncomment this line:
>

Yes, you need  to uncomment that line if  you want to be able  to change your
personal name on outgoing e-mails.

> Or has this feature changed in any  way, e.g., default is to allow changing
> from or  the line above has  changed in some way?  What is the name  of the
> file it's in?

The default is still not to allow changing from. It's in pine/osdep/os-xxx.h,
where xxx is the abbreviation for your operating system (e.g. osf).

The only  thing I've found  that's changed is  that... it doesn't  work! Pine
appears to let me  change my name, but when I send a  message out, whatever I
put as my personal  name, it always says "From: Simon  <syb3..." (the name in
my .pinerc). I don't know what's up with that or if it's just me. Anyone else
experienced the same thing when trying  to change their personal name? Anyone
been successful?!

Oh well, I sent it in as a bug report, anyway.

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