Subject: help me

From: Catalin Ioan <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 17:33:21 +0300 (EET DST)

This is my second day using Pine and i want to learn to use
him.Please,help me with some trics or some secrets. 

THANK YOU!

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From: greg <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 10:37:47 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

> him.Please,help me with some trics or some secrets. 

hahahahahahahahahahaha
hahahahaha
whoa
this was a good one

-greg-

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From: Jim Sander <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 11:05:00 -0400 (EDT)

I just reread everything I could find on setting up and invoking an    
alternate editor from pine- and have come up with nothing. To recap,    
here's my problem:  

   I want to restrict certain commands from being executed by "email only"
users, so I've set up a pine.conf.fixed file with "/usr/bin/vi" fixed as  
the alternate editor, which works perfectly until you want to go back to
pine. When you ZZ out of vi, your message is erased.

   *Someone* has to have heard of this before... I'd really appreciate
some direction here. Anyone?

-=Jim Sander=-

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From: Jim Sander <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 11:42:04 -0400 (EDT)

For those of you who have asked...

OS: FreeBSD 2.2.5, pine 3.95 (3.96 on some systems)

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 19 May 1998 19:14:12 +0200

> greg  <[email-masked]> writes:

>> him.Please,help me with some trics or some secrets.

This list is supposed to be for technical problems, so you'd better
turn to:
<news://comp.mail.pine>

The canonical source of information:
Pine Information Center - <http://www.washington.edu/pine>

The pine docs in printable format:
<http://franck.pc.uni-koeln.de/~robin/pine.html>

Some tips and tricks:
<http://franck.pc.uni-koeln.de/~robin/pine-tips.html>

> hahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahaha whoa this was a good one

Four letters for you, dipshit:

[x] FOAD

Robin

-- 
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Martin Luther was angry with the world. He wrote a new religion.
Galileo was angry with the world. He wrote a new science.
You were angry with the world. You stuck a frankfurter up your ass.

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From: Iztok Polanic <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 20:14:38 +0200 (MET DST)

> him.Please,help me with some trics or some secrets. 

I never knew tha Pine is a he :)
Read help file or press simply ? and you'll find all the secrets you want!

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From: chad brown <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 14:38:18 EDT

I've not tried it with pine yet, but there is a pretty standard
problem with some systems wherein ed, ex, and vi all exit with
non-zero status if an error occured at any time while editing (which
is quite common), even if the session `as a whole' went fine.  

Some programs liek to check the return value of the editor to see if
there may have been a problem; pine may be falling prey to this
problem.  A little experimentation should tell you if this is your
problem.

chad

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From: Jim Sander <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 16:02:45 -0400 (EDT)

Thanks for the lead- I've just tried a couple quickie tests by setting
the editor to /usr/bin/false, and then to /usr/bin/true. Obviously neither
one let me edit my documents. (_that_ would be interesting) However, both
of them erased the message I was working on- so I think maybe there is
something else going on here.

   Of course, my tests may have overlooked something... more ideas please?
General comments maybe? Lame attempts at humor?

Thanks all,
-=Jim=-