Subject: Re: Pcpine (Win95) in Lab environment

From: [email-masked] (Timothy P. Cheney)
Date: 23 Jul 1996 21:00:57 GMT

Jon Speer ([email-masked]) wrote:
: We would very much like to move PCPine into our campus Win95 labs. This of
: course means that we can not store a login in the .pinerc file.  I would
: appreciate feedback on dealing with any of the following issues:

: 1. After logging in initially, PCPine asks for a login and password again to
: compose, and again for creating/editing folders.  This doesn't seem to be
: the case if the login name is present in the .pinerc file.  How might we
: avoid this?  We have considered writing a script to write this into .pinerc
: each time they log into the Novell server (same login), but it seems this
: could be done by PCPine itself by simply storing it into the .pinerc file
: (we use revr dist between each user).

   We have a lab with OS/2 machines and when we installed winpine we
set the environment variable %HOME% to point to H: which is their
home directory on the Netware server.  This causes pine to look for
.pinerc in their network drive.  Can you do the same in Win '95?

: 2. The .addressbook that our users have on Pine is in a format readable by
: PCPine, but there doesn't seem to be a way to use it unless you copy it
: over, which is of little use. 

: 3. Our users often rely on putting in another user's (on our system) login
: on the TO: line and having pine do the user name translation and
: automatically entering the user's first and last name.  This would be a
: helpful option for PCPine to do the same translation there, and even moreso
: to do this with the user's login so as to input the First and Last name in
: the .pinerc file.  This would avoid asking the user to enter a FROM: value
: every time they compose (which, here, is after they are asked to relogin again).

: 4. We are aware of the benefits of ACAP once finalized and in use, so I
: wonder if this is in the works for PCPine.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 14:18:15 -0700

On 23 Jul 1996, Jon Speer wrote:

> 
> 4. We are aware of the benefits of ACAP once finalized and in use, so I
> wonder if this is in the works for PCPine.
> 

Yes, we are currently planning to implement ACAP support when the
specification becomes more stable.

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