Subject: what is pilot

From: "Ashish S. Nadkarni" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 09:16:59 -0500 (GMT)

there is this pilot-bin....kept in the unix directory in the ftp site at
washington.could anyone please tell me what it is supposed to be?
	thanks
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From: [email-masked] (Jamie Royer)
Date: 15 Apr 96 17:52:40 PDT

>washington.could anyone please tell me what it is supposed to be?

It is a file browser and viewer (text-files).  It is based on code
used internally in Pine.  It is also an acroynm for ...

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 09:10:11 +0100 (BST)

> used internally in Pine.  It is also an acroynm for ...

"PIne's Lister Of Things" according to the documentation.

Cheers,

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