Subject: Help please...?

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 11:10:28 -0700 (MST)

Hi, I am a student at Pima Comm. College in Arizona, and am having
trouble with my pine...can you help?
My folders are not working, and am not able to use pine much at all.

I think the problem stemms from not having my configuration
set...under the config. menu all my values are set to zero, or some
equivalant.  My question is what is a value, what should it be?
Any help is appreciated...if I'm even making any sense.

Thanks
Miranda
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From: [email-masked] (Jie Yuan)
Date: 4 Mar 1997 19:17:19 GMT

[Posted and mailed]

> Any help is appreciated...if I'm even making any sense.

If you are on a Unix host, delete (remove) the .pinerc file in your home
directory, then start pine to create another one with all "facotry"
settings.  If you are on a VMS machine, delete the pine.pinerc file. 

Hope this helps.

Jie
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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 21:07:39 +0100 (CET)

On Tue, 4 Mar 1997 [email-masked] wrote:

  >trouble with my pine...can you help? My folders are not working, and am
  >not able to use pine much at all.
  >I think the problem stemms from not having my configuration set...under
  >the config. menu all my values are set to zero, or some equivalant. My
  >question is what is a value, what should it be? Any help is
  >appreciated...if I'm even making any sense.

Not much, but don't let that bother you.

There are two alternatives for you:

1. Learn to understand pine. You've made it to the setup --> config menu;
from there, it's only one more step to the help screen. Besides, information
about pine can be obtained from:
	http://www.washington.edu/pine

2. Kick your sysadmin. Unless you've screwed up your menu manually, there's
no reason for pine not to work except wrong default settings by the admin.

Cheers,
Robin

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