Subject: Re: command line args to start pine viewing news group list?

From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 22:53:47 -0500

On Fri, 29 Mar 1996, Nancy McGough wrote:
> What's the best command line arguments to use to start pine and have
> it present me my list of news groups?  Note that I often have
> multiple sessions of pine going, including one that's viewing my
> inbox, so I want to make sure that whenever I open up a pine
> session for news reading it does not access my inbox (or any other
> folder) and lock it up and make it read only.

In case anyone else is interested, here's what I'm using:

alias png "pine -o -folder-collections=Folders/[]  -default-fcc=Posted -I 'g,^N,^N,^T,^W'"

Things to note:

 * png stands for pine news groups
 * -o makes it so my inbox won't get locked
 * -folder-collections=Folders/[] makes it so I only have one folder
   collection instead of my normal gazillions; also this will be the
   default directory for saves.
 * -default-fcc=Posted (since most of my composes will be posted to news
   groups)
 * -I (initial keystrokes) - this assumes that I have incoming-folders
   specified (which I do); note that ^N is entered by typing ^V^N in vi.

If anyone has any suggestions, please post them!

Thanks,
Nancy