Subject: Re: Unix File Management in Pine

From: [email-masked] (Ralph Sims)
Date: 13 May 1996 16:56:37 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Peter Gingiss  <[email-masked]> wrote:
>The question: Is there no way to go to file management directly? Do I 
>have to start composing a message, do my file managment, and then cancel 
>the message (which had no other purpose than to get me into file management)?

If you have access to the Unix shell, try invoking "pilot".  It should
exist in the same path as pine and pico.  The "dot" files (.plan, etc.)
are bracketed by #'s.

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From: Peter Gingiss <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 10:38:36 -0500

By accident I discovered that in Pine, when I read a file into a message 
I am composing, I also have the opportunity to delete files from my Unix 
directory or rename them. In fact, it is easier to do so in Pine than in 
Unix itself (for this Unix beginner who can't remember "rm").

Thanks in advance.

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From: "Ashish S. Nadkarni" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 19:40:02 -0500 (GMT)

sure
pilot does that for you.pilot is available at the same site where pine is
available ie. ftp.cac.washington.edu. besides you may evan try using
norton's midnight commander that comes along with most linux
distributions.
bye
ashish nadkarni 

> the message (which had no other purpose than to get me into file management)?

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From: [email-masked] (Paul Seelig)
Date: 15 May 1996 20:51:51 GMT

> [...] besides you may evan try using
The Midnight Commander is a so called clone of the famous Norton Commander
so widely used on DOS PC's. Although the MC resembles so much NC it is by
far superior to it. MC is distributed under the GNU Public License and the
best filemanager on the UNIX/Linux world so far IMHO.

Look at "http://stekt.oulu.fi/~jtklehto/mc" for more information.

                                                    Paul *8^)
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