Newbie: How to install Pine?

[Frank Besier]

This is probably a silly question but...

A friend is now accessing pine through Terminal, with the Pine s/w
accessible on his ISP's server ( a local Freenet). That means he can
only compose email (or read them) when he's online. He has limited
access time, so this is a problem for him.

We'd like to change that, by installing a copy of Pine on his local
machine, and using that for email composition and reading.

I don't know if Pine is intended to be installed on a local machine
(running DOS and Windows), and if that's OK, would my friend be able to
use his local copy to create/read messages offline, before connecting to
his ISP?

Any advice would be much appreciated!

[see...@nospam.lobonet.com]

Maybe someone will answer the question better than I, but I have
had success with an offline reader called "Nettamer" by David
Colston, for older machines. (Untill I changed versions..:). This
program is intended to be used on a PPP connection. If your friend can
access his provider as a PPP connection that should work. The program
can be found on the web, but can be slightly confusing to set up,
but the doc file is fairly good. Other than that, and other
"offline" readers, he might consider a script based/oriented comm
program.
(I am assuming that he is not using a windowed machine, but there
may be the same for those either with "Nettamer" or a script based
comm program).

Hope that helps.

(To reply, change "lobo" to "wolfe", without quotes).

[Frank Besier]

Thanks. He's running Windows 3.1 on a 486; his ISP (a local Freenet)
doesn't appear to give him either PPP or SLIP access options; he has to
use Terminal to access.

My problem is that I know nothing about Pine; in this case, whether Pine
is intended to run on the server only, or if it can/should also be
installed on his local machine for offline mail reading, etc.

[Mike Uhl]

On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Frank Besier wrote:
)Thanks. He's running Windows 3.1 on a 486; his ISP (a local Freenet)
)doesn't appear to give him either PPP or SLIP access options; he has to
)use Terminal to access.
)
)My problem is that I know nothing about Pine; in this case, whether Pine
)is intended to run on the server only, or if it can/should also be
)installed on his local machine for offline mail reading, etc.
)
I personally don't know how Pine works on a local machine. I use it on
my server and download the folders to be read using a text editor
called VIM. I preserve the headers and make any response I choose, as
I am doing now. Then I upload a folder with my chosen responses and
feed them back into Pine on my server to send them out.
Now, using VIM or another text editor may or may not be a viable
option in your case.
As an alternate option, you may want to install Pine on your local
machine just for the purpose of processing the folders and making
responses. I am GUESSING that a local installation of Pine would work
on the folders the same way that the server Pine would.
Another GUESS is that the local Pine needs a PPP or SLIP connection,
which means you will probably need to use your Terminal prog to swap
the folders back and forth.
HTH

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