Subject: signatures

From: [email-masked] (John TenBosch)
Date: 17 Apr 1996 20:29:47 GMT

I am not to familiar with the pine system but I have noticed that several 
people are able to end their messages with a signature that is programed 
to end every letter. How can I do this?

John ten Bosch

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 09:39:47 +0100 (BST)

Thr trick is to set up a "signature file" which a lot of programs
(including Pine) then make use of.

The name of this file and its location depend on whether you are using
UNIX Pine or PC-Pine (you don't say which!).

The simplest thing is for you to start Pine and go to the Setup
Configuration screen (by typing S then C from the Main Menu).  Then put
your cursor on the setting called "signature-file" and ask for help by
typing "?".

If you are using the current version of Pine (3.93) then it even includes
a signature file editor to allow you to set up or change this easily.
(The previous version, 3.92, also had this feature.)

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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From: [email-masked] (Tom I Helbekkmo)
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 16:52:25 GMT

[Mike Brudenell]

|   Thr trick is to set up a "signature file" which a lot of programs
|   (including Pine) then make use of.

Yup.  The sad thing, though, is that Pine "doesn't know" that such
signatures should always, by convention, be separated from the body of
the email message or news posting by a "-- \n" sequence.  That is, a
line that contains two hyphens and a blank space.  This convention,
while originally introduced as a means for software to decide whether
a signature file had already been appended or not, also allows
newsreaders and mail programs to filter out the signatures if their
user doesn't want to see them.

The result is that one has to do what I do:  I've got two signature
files, one called ".signature" that contains my normal signature text,
and another called ".pinesig"that contains the same text, but preceded
by the magic separator line, and which I've configured Pine to use.

-tih
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Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
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