Subject: Command line option wanted.

From: [email-masked] (Mark Jenks)
Date: 27 Aug 1996 13:03:16 GMT

Pine Development Team: Would it be possible to include a command like
option that would give the status of a folder (default: INBOX).

2 New messages, 5 Old messages, Last time Pine used, etc..

Don't want it in reverse or bold. Just plain text. Would be usefull to
capture it and use it in a menu.

THanks!

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From: [email-masked] (Sven Guckes)
Date: 28 Aug 1996 17:46:50 GMT

[email-masked] (Mark Jenks):
> Don't want it in reverse or bold. Just plain text.
> Would be usefull to capture it and use it in a menu.

This has been done before:  ELM's "readmsg" utility.
It's not perfect, actually it is a little buggy.
I wish someone would write this thing in Perl...

Sven

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From: [email-masked] (Tim Mooney)
Date: 29 Aug 1996 12:37:48 -0500

In article <[email-masked]>,
> I wish someone would write this thing in Perl...

Are you volunteering?

Tim
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From: [email-masked] (Mark Jenks)
Date: 30 Aug 1996 13:21:02 GMT

Tim Mooney ([email-masked]) wrote:
: In article <[email-masked]>,
: Sven Guckes <[email-masked]> wrote:
: > [email-masked] (Mark Jenks):
: > > Pine Development Team: Would it be possible to include a command like
: > > option that would give the status of a folder (default: INBOX).
: > > 2 New messages, 5 Old messages, Last time Pine used, etc..
: > > Don't want it in reverse or bold. Just plain text.
: > > Would be usefull to capture it and use it in a menu.
: > 
: > This has been done before:  ELM's "readmsg" utility.
: > It's not perfect, actually it is a little buggy.
: > I wish someone would write this thing in Perl...
: > 
: > Sven

: Are you volunteering?

Why should anyone volunteer..??  What I was asking, is to take the bottom
on the main screen on entry, and turn it into a command line option.

It says "folder "INBOX" has been opened with ## messages". I think it even
tells you # of new messages at the same time..

# pine -s foldername(def:INBOX)
INBOX: 5 messages, 2 new

-s = status of folder
default to INBOX
allow "ALL".

Pine Team? What do you think? It looks like your most of the way there
already.

Mark Jenks