Subject: Autosave facility in message composer

From: Phil Edwards <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 13:26:39 +0100 (BST)

Hi guys!

Is there a version of PINE which will allows messages which are being
composed to be automatically saved at regular intervals?

We have had a number of users recently who have lost large messages for
one reason or another, and have been quite disgruntled to find that they
have to type the whole thing in again.

I've had a look through the help files in our version, and I can't see any
mention of such a feature. Can anyone help?

Phil Edwards
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From: Samuel Fintz <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 19:52:59 -0400 (EDT)

>From my experience, I do not believe there is such a version that has that
feature.

> mention of such a feature. Can anyone help?

Since I have had the same thing happen to me here and there I can
recommend what I usually do: postponing the message with ctrl-o and then
getting back into it with ctrl-c.  If anything happens thereafter, usually
your postponed copy will have the most recent draft of your letter,
obviously depending on when you last postponed it.

hope I helped,
sam

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 22:30:18 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

Composer checkpointing is already implemented in Pine 3.96
Look for files with names of the form:  #pico12345#

-teg

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From: Lea <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 23:46:55 -0600 (MDT)

> Look for files with names of the form:  #pico12345#

And since the subject's been raised, may I take this opportunity
to thank the Pine development team for this feature?

It's elevated me to guru status with more than a few users who
thought their hard work was lost...

Lea
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