Subject: Re: How to download e-mail?

From: Roman Czyborra <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 20:46:27 +0200 (CEST)

On 14 Mar 1997, Adam Myrow wrote:

> I am amazed that everybody forgot about the nifty feature in pine
> 3.92 or later.  It is called download command.  If you go into
> setup/config and see this option, you can set it to the name of a
> file transfering program.  So, if you wanted to be able to download
> files straight from pine without exiting and you have zmodem, define
> a "download command" of "sz -a."  No period. 

Thanks.  Wouldn't it be nice if Pine's context-sensitive help for
download-command gave "sz -a" as an example or recommendation? 

> Now when you press e to export a message, you will be able to press
> control-V to download straight to your PC.  The only draw-back is
> that the file gets a stupid temporary name. 

Does download-command-prefix help with this problem in Zmodem?

> If you are really good, you can also define an upload command too. 
> If you are going to try that, bee sure and read the help text on it
> because it isn't nearly as easy.

Here I also missed a good example in the help text.  The most
intuitive choice "rz" doesn't seem to work because "rz" doesn't accept
any filename arguments from the command line.  However the "rx"  for
Xmodem receives does fine.  With upload-command=rx you can easily
press ^R(ead File) ^Y(upload) and then Alt-S(end) X(modem).