Subject: Re: Pine Problem - View/Edit Core Dump

From: [email-masked] (paul theodoropoulos)
Date: 5 Apr 1996 04:59:38 GMT

M. Morrison ([email-masked]) wrote:
: West Coast Online upgraded Pine from 3.90 to 3.92 a few days ago.

3.91 was the former version.

: I have noticed two other lesser problems.
: 
: 1) ^R to import a file from the home directory produces a somewhat longer
: prompt, which permits three fewer characters in a pathname and filename
: entered there before you hit the end of the line.  I have several long
: pathnames, so the workarounds are a little inconvenient.  Do you know of
: any simple way to squeeze more letters in response to the prompt?

Have you tried hitting control-T, as the menu suggests? This puts you into 
the Pilot file browser. It's not as elegant as just typing out the entire 
path, but it appears quite serviceable.

: 2) The distribution lists are displayed in compressed form.  When you
: select one, it will be expanded for you on the fly.  However, you are
: supposed to be able to go into Setup and configure an X in
: Expanded-View-of-Addressbooks.  When I tried that and re-entered Pine, the
: folders still were not expanded automatically.

This would be something to mail the pine-development-team about. The 
address is in the built-in pine docs.

: Any suggestions, particularly about the core dumps, would be appreciated.
: Please copy me into any responses at my E-mail address ([email-masked]),
: as I don't regularly monitor this newsgroup.

The core dump would also be a candidate for a bug report to the pine 
development team.

-- 
Paul Theodoropoulos   [email-masked]
West Coast Online, Inc.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.  
					-- Pablo Picasso

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From: "M. Morrison" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 12:33:18 -0800

West Coast Online upgraded Pine from 3.90 to 3.92 a few days ago.

When the new version of Pine was uploaded, one serious problem was
discovered.  If you have a distribution list and want to edit one of the
entries, 3.90's Z option no longer exists; you must use the V option.
However, when I enter V, I always get a core dump.

I have noticed two other lesser problems.

1) ^R to import a file from the home directory produces a somewhat longer
prompt, which permits three fewer characters in a pathname and filename
entered there before you hit the end of the line.  I have several long
pathnames, so the workarounds are a little inconvenient.  Do you know of
any simple way to squeeze more letters in response to the prompt?

2) The distribution lists are displayed in compressed form.  When you
select one, it will be expanded for you on the fly.  However, you are
supposed to be able to go into Setup and configure an X in
Expanded-View-of-Addressbooks.  When I tried that and re-entered Pine, the
folders still were not expanded automatically.

Any suggestions, particularly about the core dumps, would be appreciated.
Please copy me into any responses at my E-mail address ([email-masked]),
as I don't regularly monitor this newsgroup.