Subject: pine.conf

From: Cesar Romani <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 17:09:49 +0200 (DFT)

I've installed pine3.93 succesfully on a RS6000 AIX 3.2.5 machine,
but the files pine.conf, pine.info and pine.conf.fixed aren't available
with the distribution.
Where can I get these files?
Many thanks in advance.

Cesar Romani
Hamburg, Germany

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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 23:55:59 +0800 (GMT)

> Where can I get these files?

	They are the same as a .pinerc file.

	If you type "pine -h" you will see one of the selections is

 -pinerc <file> Configuration - Put fresh pinerc configuration in <file>

	This will give you the file you need.  Simply edit it to be
what you want and name it and place it where it should go.

	Ed

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From: SandraB <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 12:00:16 -0400 (EDT)

> Where can I get these files?

You produce default versions of these files by running:

pine -conf > pine.conf
pine -conf > pine.info
pine -conf > pine.conf.fixed

Produce them in /usr/local/lib.

You may then edit the pine.conf to your needs.

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 09:17:22 -0700 (PDT)

> what you want and name it and place it where it should go.

Probably a little more convenient than "pine -pinerc" is "pine -conf".
The -pinerc option gives a cleaned up version of your own pinerc file.
The -conf option gives a cleaned up version of the global pine.conf file,
which will have nothing set in it if you don't already have one.  Also,
some of the variables can be set in pine.conf but not in pinerc, so the
available set of variables will be slightly different in the two cases.
You don't need to have a pine.conf unless there are global defaults that
you want to set for everybody.  You don't need a pine.conf.fixed unless
there are variables that you want to set so that users can't override
them.

Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 16:57:07 +0100 (BST)

pine.conf
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A file suitable for modification can be created by running Pine with the
"-conf" command line option and redirecting the output to the file.  This
is described in the man page for Pine.

pine.conf.fixed
---------------
Copy the settings of any items you want to "fix" systemwide out of
pine.conf into pine.conf.fixed.  This file is optional; if it doesn't
exist or is empty all values can be changed by users in their personal
settings.

pine.info
---------
A text file you create.  Its content will be inserted within the first
screenful or so of Pine's main help screen ("?" at the Main Menu).

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 17:34:39 +0100 (BST)

> You may then edit the pine.conf to your needs.

Aaarrgghh!  No ...

What you say is true for pine.conf.

However producing a pine.conf.fixed in this way would "fix" every single
value (apart from the feature-list).  It's much easier to vreate this file
only if you want to fix any values, and then by copying the relevant
settings over from the pine.conf file.

The pine.info file is a help file, and so should not contain the output of
a "pine -conf" command.  This file's content is inserted in Pine's Main
Menu Help text.

Cheers,