Subject: Re: pine 4.0 suggestion

From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: 3 Dec 1996 13:47:13 -0500

[email-masked] (Mike Robinson) writes:
>One thing that might be nice is to have a location for all of pines 
>files, such as the .pinerc, .pine-debug, pico-saves, .addressbooks,etc.  
>Just like elm has the ".elm" directory, I'd like to have a ~/.pine and 
>then put all these bloody files in there.

I agree completely!  And the directory should be specifiable by the 
user.

Thanks,
Nancy

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From: [email-masked] (Mike Robinson)
Date: 29 Nov 1996 04:35:02 GMT

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From: Richard Gering <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 14:56:05 +0100 (WET)

> I agree completely!  And the directory should be specifiable by the 

Yes, but if the directory should be specifiable by the user, where would
such a specification go?  In .pinerc perhaps? :-) 

(I know, I know, you could solve this with an environment variable. But
 that's not something you want to spring on unexperienced users...). 

Cheers!

- Richard Gering.

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