Subject: Re: hmm.. PLEASE HELP!! offline mail-writing..

From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 10:56:17 -0400

On Fri, 12 Jul 1996, Juha Suhonen wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Jul 1996, Paul O Bartlett wrote:
> 
> >     I am a bit puzzled.  If you are postponing messages for no other
> > reason than to try to be able to send them all at once, [...]
> 
> Doesn't the _subject_ say it? OFFLINE mail writing? :)
> 
> (Ie SLIP link, not always up, user wants to read mails off-line..)

    However, you were asking about Pine in a Pine newsgroup.  To the
best of my knowledge, Pine does *NO* offline activity at all.  It is
strictly interactive.  When Pine is not running interactively, then
Pine is not running at all and can do nothing.  You cannot even run it
in a "batch" mode from the command line.  For good or for ill, that's
the way Pine was designed and built.  You seem to be wanting to do
something Pine was never designed for and therefore cannot do.  Sorry. 
Perhaps you could find some useful information on one of the other mail
newsgroups.  I doubt that you can do what you want to do with Pine. 
(Better informed opinion welcome.)

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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