Subject: Re: Ms Word - Wordperfect

From: [email-masked] (Peter J. Weyers)
Date: 3 Apr 1996 19:19:29 GMT

Rod Upfold ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Instead of composing a question with "pine".....can I write the message 
: with MS Word or Wordperfect to take advantage of their word processing 
: capabilities and then import to "pine"?

Be carefull!

Unless you convert it into ASCII (then you could include it with ctrl-r 
"Read File") only the people having your Software will be able to read 
it. It might be inconveniant for them in any case.

Peter
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From: Michael <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 04:01:12 -0700

Hi Rod,

On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, Rod Upfold wrote:

> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 10:09:02 -0500
> From: Rod Upfold <[email-masked]>
> Newsgroups: comp.mail.pine
> Subject: Ms Word - Wordperfect
>
> Instead of composing a question with "pine".....can I write the message
> with MS Word or Wordperfect to take advantage of their word processing
> capabilities and then import to "pine"?
>
> If so....how?
>

Yes, this is one way it could be done. When your in Pine and have the
cursor below the header, there is a command called "Read File", this will
take a file in your home directory at your ISP and insert it in the
message field. I'll show you the top of a message I sent, then exported (I
won't bore you with the hole thing). I plan to download this after I get
out of Pine tonight.

>From [email-masked] Tue Apr  9 01:03:53 1996
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 01:01:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Need help!

Hi Steve,

On Mon, 8 Apr 1996 [email-masked] wrote:

> Hmm... this isn't too encouraging.

...in this case you would compose your message using Word, then save the
file as a ASCII file (which means don't get to fancy with fonts, lines,
tabs, etc.). Upload the file to your home directory, start Pine, go to
the composer, set your address and move the cursor to the text area,
select "Read File", type the name of the file you uploaded and you should
see what you wrote in Word now on the Pine screen. Of course check it for
defects. It would be best to have a single file for every message you plan
to send.

The way to do it Number 2...

Another way would be to have the completed message on the Word screen
(already spell checked and so forth). Then just use the cut/paste to copy
the text over to the Pine screen.

This depends on a few things, like how you are using Word and how you are
connecting to your shell so you can use Pine. It may help to remember the
cut/paste short-cut key commands if they appear not to be available.

Hope this helps some,

Michael ([email-masked])

Founding member of S.A.D. (Slipnet A Disappointment)

Now with new members!!

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 08:10:22 -0400

> capabilities and then import to "pine"?

    You did not specify which operating system Pine is running under
(Un*x, VMS, etc.), but there may be an easier solution.  It is a Pine
configuration option to use an "alternate editor" in place of the Pine
composer.  Therefore, when you go to edit the body of your message
itself, you can directly use another editor (vi, emacs, whatever) in
place of the Pine composer.  I do this, using jpico, a named
configuration of the JOE editor which looks a lot like Pico and the
Pine composer but has numerous additional features.  This technique,
which is built into Pine as a user option, saves a lot of hassle in
uploading and reading in a file composed externally to Pine.

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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