Subject: Suppressing Greeting Text

From: "Michael J. Pape" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:44:00 -0400

Is there an easy way (without having to edit all users' .pinerc file) to
suppress the greeting text that appears when you upgrade to a new version of
Pine? If I scripted an update to everyone's' .pinerc file to change the
"last-version" to the new version number, would this preclude other changes
from being automatically made to the .pinerc file when the new version is
executed???

Thanks,
mike

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From: Silviu Cojocaru <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 20:44:12 +0300

Monday, May 21, 2001, 6:44:00 PM, Michael J. Pape wrote:

> Pine?

Why do you want to suppress it ? It only appears once, per
upgrade, I don't think that's such a nuisance.

-- 
        If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed...
                     ...Oh wait, he already does.

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From: "Michael J. Pape" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 14:24:28 -0400

Does it really matter why? I have my reasons, and my boss agrees. I simply
don't have the time to justify myself -- is that a prerequisite to posting
to this list?

However, to humor you and other who may be curious I'll give you a short
explanation. There is a bug in the version of Pine that I'm running (4.21),
and in the latest version (4.33), that is causing my users' spool files to
be corrupted. I've verified this with the engineers at Compaq (my platform),
who have in turn verified it with the Pine developers. The pine developers
have given me a fix which includes using the latest beta snapshot of the
imap daemon with version 4.33 of Pine, i.e., I need to upgrade. The fact of
the matter is that I don't want the user community to know that I've
upgraded -- they don't have a need to know, and it would raise more
questions then I care to answer. I may not be a nuisance to most users, but
in the end, it will most certainly be a nuisance to me...

Sorry if this all seems a bit harsh, but I really just wanted to save myself
some time...

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From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 13:31:18 -0700 (PDT)

*** Michael J. Pape ([email-masked]) wrote in the pine-info list today:

:) Is there an easy way (without having to edit all users' .pinerc file)
:) to suppress the greeting text that appears when you upgrade to a new
:) version of Pine? If I scripted an update to everyone's' .pinerc file to
:) change the "last-version" to the new version number, would this
:) preclude other changes from being automatically made to the .pinerc
:) file when the new version is executed???

  I think the answer to your last question is no. There are some new
variables that are created and updated when they are not found, but even
when I tried to make this fail I couldn't, so it's likely that the answer
to your question is "No".

-- 
Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/

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From: Jacob Morzinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 17:22:58 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 21 May 2001, Michael J. Pape wrote:
> Is there an easy way (without having to edit all users' .pinerc file)
> to suppress the greeting text that appears when you upgrade to a new
> version of Pine?

The last time this came up, someone suggested using the variable
"new-version-threshold".  It looks close to what you want:

   _new-version-threshold_
          When a new version of _Pine_ is run for the first time it
          offers a special explanatory screen to the user upon startup.
          This option helps control when and if that special screen
          appears for users that have previously run _Pine_. It takes as
          its value a _Pine_ version number. _Pine_ versions less than
          the specified value will supress this special screen while
          versions equal to or greater than that specified will behave
          normally.

 Jacob Morzinski                                [email-masked]