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- Pine 3.91 RELEASE NOTES
- Specific To PC-PINE
- October 1994
-
- Copyright 1989-1994 University of Washington.
- Pine and Pico are trademarks of the University of Washington.
-
- INTRODUCTION
-
- Version 3.91 is a maintenance release of PINE --a Program for Internet
- News & Email. The general release notes for Pine 3.91 are available
- via the "R" command on the Main Menu. This file contains information
- that is particular to PC-Pine. We assume that you are generally familiar
- with Pine; if not, additional information resources include:
-
- o The builtin context-sensitive Help screens in Pine.
- o The comp.mail.pine newsgroup.
- o The anonymous FTP archives at ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine
- o The World-Wide-Web page at http://www.cac.washington.edu/pine
-
- There are five versions of PC-Pine:
-
- o DOS: FTP Inc's PC-TCP
- o DOS: Novell's LAN Workplace for DOS
- o DOS: Sun's PC-NFS
- o DOS: WATTCP/Packet Driver
- o Windows: Winsock
-
- The Winsock version is not a full Windows GUI application; it has the same
- user interface as the Unix and DOS versions of Pine.
-
- KNOWN BUGS
-
- There are several bugs that we already know about:
-
- o The mouse cannot be used to select commands from the Main Menu,
- except via the key menu at the bottom of the screen, nor can you
- directly select by mouse folders, addresses, or config options from
- their respective screens.
-
- o Clicking on the "Ret Accept" field in the key menu does not select
- the command, instead it puts "R"s into the text input buffer.
- (Winsock version only?)
-
- o You cannot (yet) mount a Unix directory (via NFS or SMB) and successfully
- share the same .newsrc file between your Unix and PC versions of Pine.
-
- o The Winsock version is preliminary; we know that there are a number
- of things that need to be done, but your comments pro or con are
- most welcome.)
-
- INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
-
- If you've made it this far, then you have already picked up a copy of
- PC-Pine that is appropriate for your networking software and "unzipped"
- the files in a directory (probably C:\Pine) on your PC's disk drive. In
- the case of PC-Pine for Winsock, assuming you have Winsock/TCP/IP
- networking software already installed, you can now use the Windows file
- manager to create a new program item, or just use the "Run" option in the
- program manager to start out. For the DOS versions, there are only a few
- more things you have to do to get Pine rolling:
-
- ----------------------------------
- Setting up the Networking Software
- ----------------------------------
-
- We assume that your DOS networking software has been installed and
- configured for regular use. If it has not, you must do that before
- using Pine.
-
- There are some additional steps that must be taken by users of
- packet drivers, or older verisons of FTP, Inc.'s PC/TCP. Those steps
- are explained below.
-
- PCs with a Packet Driver:
- -------------------------
-
- A) Edit the file WATTCP.CFG in the PC-Pine distribution to set
- the PC's TCP/IP configuration. Simply edit the file to do this.
-
- B) Every time Pine runs, it needs to be able to "see" the
- WATTCP.CFG file you just configured above. To do that, you
- must add an environment variable "WATTCP.CFG" to the file
- AUTOEXEC.BAT. Here are the step-by-step instructions:
-
- 1) Edit the file C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT to add the following line -
- set WATTCP.CFG=C:\PINE
-
- 2) Save the file and reboot your computer.
-
- You will only have to do this packet driver specific configura-
- tion work once.
-
- X) ADDITIONAL NOTE: If you have a running version of NCSA telnet,
- already installed on you PC, its "CONFIG.TEL" file can be used
- instead of the WATTCP.CFG file. PC-Pine has a basic understanding
- of the CONFIG.TEL format, and will recogize the "CONFIGTEL"
- environment variable in the absence of a "WATTCP.CFG" environment
- variable.
-
- PCs with a PC/TCP Version Less than 2.2
- ---------------------------------------
-
- A) You need a configuration file called "PCTCP.INI" in the Pine
- directory. This can be created in one of two ways:
-
- - If you have the program "Trans.exe" provided by FTP, Inc.,
- then you can run this command:
- trans ifcust0.sys > C:\Pine\pctcp.ini
-
- - If you don't have "Trans.exe" or if that command does not
- work for you, then create the file by hand. It needs to
- contain just these two lines:
-
- [pctcp ifcust 0]
- ip-address=<your_pc's_ip_address>
-
- Replace <your_pc's_ip_address> with the 4-section number
- appropriate for your computer.
-
- B) Every time Pine runs, it needs to be able to "see" the
- PCTCP.INI file you just configured above. To do that, you
- must add an environment variable "PCTCP.INI" to the file
- AUTOEXEC.BAT. Here are the step-by-step instructions:
-
- 1) Edit the file C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT to add the following line -
- set PCTCP=C:\PINE\PCTCP.INI
-
- 2) Save the file and reboot your computer.
-
- You will only have to do this PC/TCP specific configuration
- work once.
-
- -----------------------------------
- Essential Configuration Information
- -----------------------------------
-
- When you start PC-Pine for the first time, the program will prompt
- you for certain information which it needs as it needs it. That
- configuration data is written to PC-Pine's configuration file (named
- PINERC in the directory you unpacked pine in), so you will not have
- to enter it every time.
-
- You should be preprared for the questions as PC-Pine can't really
- proceed without the answers. If you make an error in any of these
- entries, you can correct it in Pine's SETUP CONFIGURATION screen
- (type "S" then "C" from the Main Menu).
-
- Inbox
- -----
- When you read mail with PC-Pine, your mail is not delivered to your
- PC directly. Rather, email is delivered to an IMAP server which
- has been previously set up by your department/university/institution.
- When you first start Pine, you need to specify where your INBOX
- is. The syntax is this: {imap-server.domain}INBOX
-
- User-id
- -------
- This is the user-id part of your email address.
-
- Personal name
- -------------
- Your name as you want it to appear on outgoing email. You may have
- spaces and puctuation in the name.
-
- Host/domain
- -----------
- The "host" portion of your email address. This may be the full name
- of the computer where your inbox resides or your departmental/
- institutional domain if mail forwarding is set up. NOTE: You should
- not put the name of your PC as the answer to this question -- your
- PC is not where your INBOX resides.
-
- SMTP server
- -----------
- Your PC does not have the software to interact with Internet email
- directly. It must rely on an SMTP server to actually send your
- message. You need to set this to the full name of the computer at
- your site which provides SMTP service.
-
-
- Example: Suppose the PC-Pine user is named "Joe User" and has
- the login/email address of "juser". The individual is at the
- University of Examples and takes advantage of the general
- domain of "u.example.edu". He has set up his email so that
- email is delivered to his inbox on the machine "imap.example.edu".
- The University has set up an SMTP server on the machine named
- "smtp-relay.example.edu". The PC running PC-Pine is on the campus
- network and is called "pc-joe".
-
- That person would answer PC Pine's configuration questions like this:
-
- INBOX {imap.example.edu}INBOX
- User-id juser
- Personal Name Joe User
- Host/domain u.example.edu
- SMTP Server smtp-relay.example.edu
-
- Email coming from the account would look like this:
-
- -------------- Sample Email -----------------
- Date: Mon, 16 July 1993 08:45:43 -0700
- From: Joe User <juser@u.example.edu>
- To: Pine Development Team <pine-bugs@cac.washington.edu>
- Subject: My First Message
-
- -------------------
- Local Support Files
- -------------------
-
- In Pine 3.91, the Release Notes (Press "R" on the Main Menu) contain a
- section on Configuration, including default file names and environment
- variables. In brief, PC-Pine uses the following rules for finding config and
- support files:
-
- 1. The location of the PINERC is searched for in the following order of
- precedence:
- 1. File pointed to by PINERC environment variable
- 2. $HOME\PINE\PINERC
- 3. A file named PINERC in the same directory as PINE.EXE
-
- 2. The HOME environment variable, if not set, defaults to root of the
- current working drive.
-
- 3. The default for most support files (e.g. PINE.SIG and ADDRBOOK) is
- the same directory as the PINERC file.
-
- 4. The support files (PINE.HLP and PINE.NDX) must be in the
- same directory as PINE.EXE.
-
- Descriptions of these files follows:
-
- PINERC
- ------
- The Pine configuration file. It contains all of Pine's config-
- uration information -- much more than just the essentials listed
- above. There are comments in the PINERC to help you out. Also,
- PC-Pine comes with a sample PINERC you can use as a model. See
- the release notes for this version (they are compiled into the
- program) for more details.
-
- ADDRBOOK
- --------
- Your Pine address book. All the tools you need to manage the
- address book are in Pine itself, so you shouldn't need to worry
- about this.
-
- PINE.SIG
- --------
- Your signature file. If this file exists, Pine will automatically
- insert it into every outgoing message. You can specify a
- different name for this file in the PINERC if you like.
-
- NEWSRC
- ------
- The NEWSRC is your subscription list for newsgroups. By default
- Pine will create this file in the same directory as your PINERC,
- but will recognize it in your $HOME directory as well. You can
- specify a different name for this file in the PINERC if you like.
-
- MAILCAP
- -------
- The MAILCAP file is not required by PC-Pine for normal operation,
- but is the configuration file that can be used to help PC-Pine
- deal with types and subtypes of MIME attachments it doesn't
- have builtin knowledge of. The MAILCAP file is automatically
- recognized in either the same directory as your PINERC or the
- same directory as PINE.EXE. You can specify a different MAILCAP
- file (or files) using the MAILCAPS environment variable which
- takes a semicolon delimited list of locations. A sample MAILCAP,
- MAILCAP.SAM, is included in the distribution to help get started.
-
- ---------------------------
- Local Directory for Folders
- ---------------------------
-
- Another important directory to PC-Pine is the location for local mail
- folders. By default, PC-Pine will create the directory $HOME\MAIL to use
- as the directory to store mail you save to the local disk. If the $HOME
- environment variable is not defined, PC-Pine will assume the root of the
- current working drive. This location can be overridden by changing or
- adding "folder-collections" definitions in PC-Pine's SETUP CONFIGURATION
- screen.
-
- ---------------------------------------------------
- Checking for and Retrieving Future PC-Pine Versions
- ---------------------------------------------------
-
- Once you have PC-Pine working, you can use it to get its own updates. If
- you see bugs in PC-Pine and want to find out if you have the most current
- version or if you know there is a more current version and need to get it,
- try Pine's Update command, which will connect you to the Pine update
- server, which always holds the most current version of PC-Pine and also a
- document entitled Pine Technical Notes. You will find "Update" as one of
- your options in the "Setup" section from Pine's main menu.
-
-