Subject: Re: PC-PINE mime attachment problem - solution

From: Dave <[email-masked]>
Date: 10 May 1996 16:47:05 GMT

I have found the answer to my own problem. By running PINE with -d 7 
debug option I discovered that PINE looks for UPPER CASE file type 
extensions when attaching a file; even when the file is in LOWER CASE in 
the windows pop-up box.

Hence, PINE was looking for a .TXT when the MIMETYPES file only lists 
txt So, I put both in, i.e. text/plain    txt TXT.

Simple.

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From: John Wolff <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 16:05:08 +1000

On 10 May Dave Pentland wrote about problems getting PC-Pine to recognise 
> txt So, I put both in, i.e. text/plain    txt TXT.

I have just spent half a day chasing this same problem. Mimetypes worked fine 
if I typed the filename directly into the header field (in lower case, of 
course), but wouldn't work if I used the Windows selection dialog. Thanks for 
the tip, Dave - another problem solved.

But, to the Pine team, is there any reason why we couldn't have mimetypes 
case-insensitive in the next revision?

Thanks,

John Wolff                                
Electronics & Networks Engineer           Phone:          +61 3 9542 2281
CSIRO Ian Wark Laboratory                 Fax:            +61 3 9543 6613
Private Bag 10, Rosebank MDC              Private:        +61 3 9754 2426
Clayton, VIC, 3169, Australia             Email: [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 16:15:59 +0300 (EET DST)

Could somebody, please, tell me which tools (compilers etc) are
used to build the Pine for PC? I am good at Unix but I know very
little about PCs.

Could you please send me hints as the makefile.win does not help me.

Thank you in advance,

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