Monster Media 1996 #14/Monster Media No. 14 (April 1996) (Monster Media, Inc.).ISO/os2/pine391a.zip/README.Os2

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Installation instructions are in the following section. Please do
not mail the person mentioned at the foot of this document until
and unless you have read this document completely!
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This is a port of the Pine 3.91 mail user agent to OS/2 32-bit
compiled with the emx 0.09b development system, gcc 2.7.2. This
includes only the mail UA client and the pico editor, no imapd.

Notes on the OS/2 version of Pine:

 . This is a text mode only version of Pine.

 . Like the PC & Windows versions, this version of Pine is intended
   to be run primarily as a network client.

 . The following client mailstream drivers are supported by Pine-OS2:

     imap,nntp,pop3,bezrk,tenex,dawz,dummy

   This is the same as PC-Pine, with the addition of pop3.
   To enable pop3 over a network link, use the folder
   specification:

     {site.domain/pop3}INBOX

   The pop3 driver has not been extensively tested, however.

   NOTE: Yes, the '{' and '}' are necessary. This is the way that Pine
   knows the difference between a local folder/collection and a remote
   one.

 . The "alternate editor" command is active in this version via
   the ^_ key.

 . The spell checker is enabled, by default calling gnu ispell.
   Internal spell checking facilities are disabled in Pine, so
   the spell checker itself must provide the interface (as is
   the case with ispell). The "SPELL" environment variable
   can specify an alternative spell checking program.

 . All help is included within the executable itself.

 . The mouse is enabled and working under OS/2 to the same
   extent as that available under Windows/MSDOS; ie. it works
   for some functions but does not include anything very advanced.

 . Unlike the PC versions of Pine, the addressbook functions work.

 . Attempts have been made to ensure that all files produced and
   used by Pine conform to 8.3 mapping of the FAT filesystem. It
   has not, however, been tested on FAT. Needless to say, the HPFS
   filesystem is fully supported.

 . The pipe command '|' is enabled and functional. Avoid piping
   mail to any interactive command, however - it will not work.

 . Printing has not been tested. For expedience, the UNIX model of
   piping output to a command has been used. You may like to use
   the OS/2 port of the BSD lpr command or similar, or pipe to any
   other command according to preference.

 . Pine-OS2 maps itself to the current display mode, adapting to
   the current screen size to suit.

 . Pine-OS2 provides 16 foreground colours and 8 background colors
   to select from (rather than 8 and 8 with PC-Pine).

 . This version of pine is fully UNIX shell aware, and uses the
   SHELL environment variable in preference to COMSPEC when spawning
   other process. This was tested with the csh and ksh ports.

 . Debugging is not enabled.


INSTALLATION

Requirements: OS/2 2.x with TCPIP 2.0 or later installed (IBM's IAK is
fine). emx.dll version 0.09b or later placed somewhere in the LIBPATH.

NOTE: If you have other OS/2 applications you've downloaded from the
internet or BBSes, then you probably already have emx.dll installed.
Check the file size and date, and if it is not identical or later more
recent than the one supplied in this archive, then you need to update
it. Shut down any and all applications using emx first, else you will
not be able to do so.

Set the HOME environment variable in your CONFIG.SYS to a directory you wish
to use for a work area. Reboot. Move Pine.exe (and optionally Pico.exe) to
any directory in the system PATH. Set the TMP and/or TEMP directory to point
to a directory to be used for temporary files. NOTE: This directory must
exist prior running pine or bad things may result. You may use the PINERC
environment variable to point to an alternative configuration file if
necessary.

Run Pine. Follow the directions presented, and before doing anything else
you should select S)etup C)onfigure and run through all configuration items
and preferences. You may have to exit and restart to access folders.

Read the documentation for further information. Note the syntax of setting
up network folders, folder collections and so on:

  Network folder:  {site.domain}path
  News collection: News *{site.domain}[]

If you specify 'INBOX' as path, this is magic for the inbound mailbox on the
specified server. Note that over a 14.4K link I've had more luck with using
imap to read news than nntp from a performance point of view. NNTP seems
very slow - imap works better. To set this up:

  NNTP-Server: site.domain
  News Collection: News *{site.domain/imap}[]

imapd needs to be running on the news server, and you need to have an
account on that machine, of course, otherwise nntp must be used.
Irrespective of which method you use to read mail, nntp is still used for
posting, hence the requirement for the nntp server name.

Enjoy!

Port to OS/2 by David Nugent ([e-mail])


CHANGES
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Release a:

  . Fixed keyboard polling problem in Pine (not Pico or within the
    composer, which was ok) - should now not poll the keyboard and
    use lots of CPU unnecessarily.

  . Keyboard and video I/O are now threaded. Updating to the screen
    may now be a litle slower on occasion, but performance of the
    program itself, particularly when running in a window on the
    desktop, should be much better.