Subject: Newsreader password?

From: "John A. Perry" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 06:38:06 -0500 (CDT)

Is there someway to insert my Usenet password into Pine similar to
the /user= token on collections?

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From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 12:22:40 -0700 (PDT)

*** John A. Perry ([email-masked]) wrote in the pine-info list today:

:) 	Is there someway to insert my Usenet password into Pine similar to
:) the /user= token on collections?

No, If you are using Unix Pine, you need to recompile it. Edit the file
pine4.40/pine/pine.h and add the following line

#define PASSFILE "pine.pwd"

after recompiling, create an empty file called "pine.pwd" in your $HOME
directory. The rest of the process is taken care of by Pine.

 If you are using PC-Pine you only need to create an empty file called
"pine.pwd" in the same directory that your PINERC file is in.

  You can also hide your password file in some other place by changing the
name to a path relative to $HOME (not a full path, there's a bug in the
code that makes it not work).

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Eduardo
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