Subject: WHERE TO FIND INFORMATION ABOUT PINE

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 03:00:05 -0700

This message is being sent to this mailing list weekly in order to
aid readers in finding information about Pine.  Before sending questions 
to the mailing list -- which is mirrored in the newsgroup comp.mail.pine --
please consult these resources:

The Pine program itself includes extensive internal, context-sensitive
help.  Additional information, including a User's Guide, Technical Notes, 
Questions & Answers, where to obtain the Pine software, what tools are 
available to perform tasks that Pine itself does not, and more, can be 
accessed:

     - In the Pine Information Center on the World Wide Web at the URL:
       http://www.washington.edu/pine/

     - Via anonymous FTP on the host ftp.cac.washington.edu in the
       subdirectory /pine/docs/. Here, you will find most of the
       documents from the Pine Information Center in plain-text form.

     - The Pine documents on the host ftp.cac.washington.edu can
       also be read from within Pine by defining a folder collection
       (from Pine's MAIN MENU, choose SETUP, Config; then move to
       folder-collections and choose Add Value) as:
            *{ftp.cac.washington.edu/anonymous}pine/docs/[]

The messages from this mailing list/newsgroup are archived.  These archives
can be accessed:

     - In the Pine Information Center on the World Wide Web at the URL:
       http://www.washington.edu/pine/pine-info/
       (includes a searchable index of all archived messages, and information
        on how to subscribe to this mailing list)

     - Via anonymous FTP on the host ftp.cac.washington.edu in the
       subdirectory /pine/pine-info/.

     - From within Pine by defining a folder collection (from Pine's MAIN
       MENU, choose SETUP, Config; then move to folder-collections and 
       choose Add Value) as:
            *{ftp.cac.washington.edu/anonymous}pine/pine-info/[]

If you have a question about Pine, chances are it has been asked before
and you can find the answer either through the searchable index of past
messages, or among the "Questions & Answers" at the URL: 

http://www.washington.edu/pine/QandA/ 
  or
ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/docs/QandA.txt

If you need personal assistance with using or configuring Pine, contact
the technical support staff or computer help desk of your Internet Service
Provider, school, university, employer, ... -- whichever organization
provided you with the email account on which you are using, or planning on
using, Pine.  Because system functions and configuration can vary from
site to site, they are best qualified to assist you.  (Due to the large
number of Pine installations worldwide, the University of Washington
cannot provide individual support services to Pine users at other
organizations.)

Sun Aug 10 03:00:05 PDT 1997

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  Pine development and support team
  University of Washington        
  Computing & Communications        
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From: Norman Marsh <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 15:59:59 +0100 (BST)

I am preparing to move a set of users to PINE but haven't got 
either the software or the documentation.

Please could I ask if someone could kindly send me an example of a
well-featured  properly constructed aliases definition file for 
PINE.  I believe that this would be plain text and thus
suitable for e-mailing, but I don't know much else about the format.

I would particularly like to be able to see a definition which shows
that the defined resolution addresses may be aliases upon which PINE 
may be expected to perform further lookup.

Please send any response to me directly ([email-masked]) rather
than distributing it to the list.

Oh yes, and I *promise* not to use any sent example for sending
mail back to any of the listed resolution addresses:)

Norman Marsh, University of Liverpool, [email-masked]

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 11 Aug 1997 18:21:23 +0200

>> "NM" == Norman Marsh <[email-masked]> writes:

NM> I am preparing to move a set of users to PINE but haven't got
NM> either the software or the documentation.

Both can be obtained from:

Pine Information Center:  

	http://www.washington.edu/pine

Source distribution: 

	ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pine.tar.Z

Pine Technical Notes, included in the source distrib.

I put some .dvi and .ps files of the user guide and stuff together at:

	http://franck.pc.uni-koeln.de/~robin/pine.html

NM> Please could I ask if someone could kindly send me an example of a
NM> well-featured properly constructed aliases definition file for
NM> PINE.  I believe that this would be plain text and thus suitable
NM> for e-mailing, but I don't know much else about the format.

Maybe you should get the prog and the docs first. If you're thinking
of Elm or *urgh* Eudora alias files, those can be converted to the
pine addressbook format. Install pine and take a look at the online
help and the dotfiles. That should help.

NM> I would particularly like to be able to see a definition which
NM> shows that the defined resolution addresses may be aliases upon
NM> which PINE may be expected to perform further lookup.

Distribution lists? All explained in the docs.

And, no, I'm not going to do the reading for you. Reading is fun.

Later,
Robin

-- 
Robin S. Socha, M.A.
Political Science Dept., Bonn University, Bonn
On the package it said: "Requires MS Windows 3.11 or better"  
                                  ... so I got myself Linux.