Subject: -c option

From: "Pam Woods, Systems Manager" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 09:37:21 -0800

Since it's not there yet, here's an idea for the future:

$pine :== pmdf_exe:pine

pine -c

allows you to quickly compose a message - goes straight to compose
       regardless of the pinerc setting

pine address  -- does not work on the pmdf pine implementation
                though I guess it does on unix?

thanks for listening... 

Pam

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 10:27:40 +0100 (BST)

Ummm... this has me confused slightly.

With the UNIX Pine (from the University of Washington) one can certainly
say:

	pine [email-masked]

and go straight to the Compose screen.  This is fast, because Pine doesn't
fiddle on opening the INBOX folder, etc., when invoked in this way.

Thus I can't see the need for your suggested "-c" option given the above.

If you can't do this with the (commercial, as far as I'm aware) PMDF
version of Pine then you should contact the company responsible ... this
list is read by the University of Washington team, who are unconnected
with PMDF (and who may not read this list).

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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From: "Pam Woods, Systems Manager" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 10:14:03 -0800

> with PMDF (and who may not read this list).

Yes I've contacted pmdf about this gliche in their version of pmdf pine
... they will be working on it...
(they told me to contact you about a -c option and then I found
looking closer that the pine <address> was supposed to work
even according to pmdf pine -h  internal docs!

thanks pam