Subject: Pine + Pico sources wanted

From: [email-masked] (Michiel Perdeck)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 06:29:56 GMT

Where can I find source code for Pine and Pico?

Thanks for tips,
Michiel

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 12:23:46 +0000 (GMT)

By anonymous ftp from ftp.cac.washington.edu

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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From: Michiel Perdeck <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 22:23:10 +0100

What sort of files do I find in the location below? They look like 
binaries, or are they somehow compressed? How do I decompress them? Are 
these really the sources that I am looking for? I need PICO on an 
Olivetti Unix machine.

Regards,

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 09:59:04 +0000 (GMT)

To make life easier for people wishing to download source code it is 
standard practice to bundle up the files into just one: an "archive".  
On UNIX systems the "tar" program is most commonly used to do this, hence 
giving rise to the name "a tar archive" to describe the resulting 
archive.  Such archives are usually given a filename ending ".tar" to 
indicate that it contains a tar'd archive.

As these files can be quite large it is also common practice to 
subsequently compress them.  Sometimes the UNIX "compress" program is 
used; this gives a resulting file with a name anding ".Z".  A rival 
compression program (which often achieves better compression) is GNU zip, 
or "gzip".  Files compressed with gzip have names ending ".gz".

If you use anonymous ftp to connect to:

	ftp.cac.washington.edu

and then go down into the "pine" subdirectory you will see a file called

	pine3.91.tar.Z

The is a file containing the compressed (".Z") tar archive (".tar") of 
the source code to Pine 3.91 ("pine3.91").  In fact the "README" file in 
this directory also mentions this fact. :-)

You will need to transfer this file in *binary* mode (compressed data 
needs to be transferred in binary mode).

Having got the file unto your system you will need to uncompress it, then 
un-tar it:

	uncompress pine3.91.tar.Z
	tar xvf pine3.91.tar

This will recreate the directory tree containing the Pine distribution.

You will only find binary (executable) versions of Pine if you go down a 
further level into the "unix-bin" directory, for example.

Cheers,