Subject: Re: Anyone use VMS Pine?

From: [email-masked] (Alan J. Flavell)
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 12:21:34 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Cmrokke) writes:
>
>I know there's VMS Pine out there -- Innosoft International sells it, and
>someone gave me a WWW address where I can get the software myself -- but

You may be confusing different implementations of PINE for VMS.  One 
is a commercial product which you would purchase.  AFAIK you don't get 
it on the net.

The one that we use is a free version, by Yehavi Bourvine in Israel.
It has some shortcomings, but it mostly does what we want.

>we don't have WWW where I work.

Well, then you're working with at least one hand tied behind your
back.  Lynx, at least, exists in a VMS version: get it and use it
(look on comp.infosystems.www.browsers.misc for an FAQ, ask there
if you need further help).

The only information I can offer you about Yehavi's VMS PINE
is on a WWW page:

http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7Eflavell/vms-pine.html

The software is available for FTP (user "anonymous") at vms.huji.ac.il
in directory LOCAL as PINE_3_*.ZIP (for appropriate value of "*"), 
you also need UNZIP.EXE in order to unwrap it.

best regards

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Alan

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From: [email-masked] (Alan J. Flavell)
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 21:40:57 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (A.Kooijman) writes:
>In <[email-masked]> [email-masked] writes:
>
>I managed to compile pine 3.9.1 under vms5.5-4/ucx2.0
>One problem: It only run's under a (readall) privileged account.
>
>A normal, not privileged user can start pine, see his mailboxes, but cannot
>read what's in them :-(

Since it works for other people, it would be interesting to know what
is the cause of your problem.  Since you refer to "Pine 3.9.1" rather
than to Yehavi's port or the Innosoft product, it's hard to understand
what precisely you are talking about.

best regards

-- 
Alan

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