Subject: Re: any chance?

From: Peter Karlsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 15:58:32 +0100 (MET)

On Sat, 1 Nov 1997, Andrew Vardy wrote:

> Any chance that I can go to Web pages from Pine??

Just cut'n'paste the address from Pine to your browser window.

Works for me.

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 01 Nov 1997 16:30:10 +0100

>> "PK" == Peter Karlsson <[email-masked]> writes:

>> Any chance that I can go to Web pages from Pine??
PK> Just cut'n'paste the address from Pine to your browser window.
PK> Works for me.

This is about the LaMEsT thing one could come up with... If you had at 
least had the decency to propose piping the message through a perl
script that extracts the url and fires up lynx in a Screen
console. But this is ... pathetic.

Robin - happily clicking away at highlighted urls.

-- 
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DOS: n., A small annoying boot virus that causes random spontaneous
system crashes, usually just before saving a massive project. Easily
cured by UNIX. See also MS-DOS, IBM-DOS, DR-DOS.  (David Vicker)

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From: Jeff <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 15:06:56 -0500 (EST)

> console. But this is ... pathetic.

Well... I don't do much work at a terminal where I can run X, but usually
from a win95 or MacOS machine with several telnet sessions open and a
browser or two or three.

On the win95 box, you've got the option of passing the URLs to lynx using
a filter, or cut-n-paste it to your browser. (yuck)

On the unix box, similar concept of being able to pass to lynx using
filter, but with the ability to use a graphical browser if in X- and to
use the patches posted recently that make clicking URLs in pine a bit
easier. (haven't used 'em myself)

On the MacOS machine, command-click the url, and it'll be passed to the
current browser. The system'll fire up your default browser if none is
currently running. If you're running OS 8, try a Control-click on the
address to pop up a menu of actions for the URL in question. Internet
Config is a wonderful tidbit, as is IAD. :)

Haven't seen anything for win95 to make arbitrary URLs clickable.

Anyone?

-jeff

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 02 Nov 1997 00:57:10 +0300

>> "J" == Jeff  <[email-masked]> writes:

>> This is about the LaMEsT thing one could come up with... [...]
J> Well... I don't do much work at a terminal where I can run X, but
J> usually from a win95 or MacOS machine with several telnet sessions
J> open and a browser or two or three.

I never said "X", did I? I said "screen", which is a tool that lets
you open virtual consoles in *1* telnet session. Fine thing to
have... ;-)
[...]
<OT>
J> On the MacOS machine, command-click the url, and it'll be passed to the
J> current browser. The system'll fire up your default browser if none is
J> currently running. If you're running OS 8, try a Control-click on the
J> address to pop up a menu of actions for the URL in question. Internet
J> Config is a wonderful tidbit, as is IAD. :)

BTW, KDE offers the same stuff with its mailer and newsreader. The KDE 
help browser also works as a WWW browser. KDE's kinda neat...
<http://www.kde.org>
</OT>

J> Haven't seen anything for win95 to make arbitrary URLs clickable.
J> Anyone?

Ever tried fdisk? Should work, I guess...

Cheers,
Robin

-- 
Robin S. Socha M.A.
Political Science Dept., Bonn University 
"They don't let you teach there, do they?"
Annelise Anderson in comp.mail.pine

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From: Peter Karlsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 23:27:45 +0100 (MET)

On 1 Nov 1997, Robin S. Socha wrote:

> This is about the LaMEsT thing one could come up with... 

...and the simplest. Doesn't require you to learn shell programming, or
anything...

> Robin - happily clicking away at highlighted urls.

Good for you. Personally I prefer not to click, although I have to do that
for cut'n'paste since gpm seems to require a mouse ;)

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From: Andrew Vardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 07:32:47 -0330 (NST)

> Just cut'n'paste the address from Pine to your browser window.

But this sounds like you're using PC-Pine, or something that is not
recognizable to me.

Commands can't be pasted into a CLI.  Need typing.

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From: Andrew Vardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 07:39:48 -0330 (NST)

> ...and the simplest. Doesn't require you to learn shell programming, or

But, ok, maybe someone can teach me shell programming.  You're right, I'm
a simpleton.

I tried out a script someone sent me, but it said Permission denied, or
Access denied.  

Pine gives me a whole bunch of options when Piping, but then, all of them
gave me the same result I believe.

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From: Peter Karlsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 13:33:57 +0100 (MET)

> But this sounds like you're using PC-Pine, or something that is not

I'm using Pine under Linux, and I use gpm to cut'n'paste between virtual
consoles.

> Commands can't be pasted into a CLI.  Need typing.

With gpm they can. I don't know if gpm works on anything other than Linux,
though.

-- 
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Peter

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 10:03:35 -0800 (PST)

> Any chance that I can go to Web pages from Pine??

Pine 4 will allow you to fire up your web browser on an embedded URL
just like viewing an attachment....

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From: Malcolm Florence <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 10:48:09 +0200 (SAST)

> just like viewing an attachment....

Is pine 4 finally out, and if not, do you have any idea when it will be ?

Malcolm
([email-masked])

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From: Andrew Vardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 22:01:36 -0330 (NST)

> just like viewing an attachment....

That's good.  

But if that is done, perhaps is there any Pine Web site that may have a
script to accomplish it already with previous Pine's?

Or how about, where can I find scripts anyhow, for miscellaneous purposes?
Does anyone have any??

Here is what happened with a script Robert gave me.  'lyx' is the name of
Robert's script.

It no longer tells me Permission denied, since Robert gave me an odd
looking command chmod to type to fix this.  

But still, it won't accomplish the goal for me.

What happens is exactly like this.  Viewing a message, I type '|' and then
'lyx' Return.  Then, Lynx does seem to start up.  However, what I get is a
blank screen.  The screen is empty, except for the help line at the
bottom.  Going up and down, still finds the screen empty.

Next thing is I type capital Q to quit Lynx.  Then the following message
appears at the bottom of the screen.
 
------------------------------------------------------------------------

              [PIPE MESSAGE Result: -: No such file or directory]
? Help       M Main Menu  P PrevMsg     - PrevPage    D Delete      R
Reply
O OTHER CMDS V ViewAttch  N NextMsg   Spc NextPage    U Undelete    F
Forward

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This whole scenario happens with ANY message I try it with. There could be
plenty of http parts in the message.  It always happens, regardless of
message content.