Subject: suggestion for pc-pine

From: "Aaron S. Hawley" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 21:46:59 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

how can i have pine prompt for user-id and personal name, but use the same 
same setting such as inbox location and folder locations and other feature
settings.  this way anybody can use pine from one computer.  cause at my
school, most people use pine over terminal, and it sucks.  so everyone has
the same settings and folders.  but it would be cool if pc-pine could be
put on any computer and still be able to use anyone.

here's a suggestion for the pine development team about PC-Pine that is
related to my question above.  anyone else agree it would be cool?

how about you can have after the command line pine.exe for pc-pine -p
or -pinerc and instead of adding a file don't put anything, or put a '?'
and that will cause it to ask you for a name for a new pinerc file.  this
would be cool so that people can easily start up a new pc-pine
configuration on a single computer, by simply clicking a shortcut that
says pine.exe - p ?. is this a good idea? also perhaps
you great thinkers could come up with a system to name pinerc
files for different users when these multiple files will be in the same
directory. like pinerc.username or pinerc_username., etc.  i just thought
it would be cool.  then perhaps make a shortcut setting up the correct
direction to the person's pinerc file.  and then that shortcut could be
called Shortcut to "username's" Pine, or something.  I just thought this
would be cool.  Cause it's a pain in the ass (sort of, i'm lazy) to do
all that for each person.  Maybe this is more complex and involved with
the windows interface then you want it to be.  i don't know.  it would be
cool though. hopefully you guys catch my drift.  but think of something
cool like what i just said, and even do better.

Aaron S. Hawley
[email-masked]
802.656.7396
http://www.uvm.edu/~ashawley
University of Vermont
Home: Vergennes, VT, USA
PC-Pine 4.05 mailer

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From: George Gallen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:30:23 -0400

What about a front end program which asks for a user name, then
clears out a \tmp directory, copies all files from \pcpine\username
to the \tmp directory, have the -pinerc file point to \tmp for
the folders, when pc-pine is completed, it copies all files from
\tmp back to \pcpine\username.

Of course the above does have it's problems, what happens if pcpine
ends (for whatever reason) and the files don't get copied back.
There could stand to be a lot of lost mail.

George Gallen

-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron S. Hawley [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 1998 9:47 PM
To: Pine Discussion Forum
Subject: suggestion for pc-pine

how can i have pine prompt for user-id and personal name, but use the
same 
same setting such as inbox location and folder locations and other
feature
settings.  this way anybody can use pine from one computer.  cause at my
school, most people use pine over terminal, and it sucks.  so everyone
has
the same settings and folders.  but it would be cool if pc-pine could be
put on any computer and still be able to use anyone.

and that will cause it to ask you for a name for a new pinerc file.
this
directory. like pinerc.username or pinerc_username., etc.  i just
thought
the windows interface then you want it to be.  i don't know.  it would
be

Aaron S. Hawley
[email-masked]
802.656.7396