What's new in Pine 3.96

New Export Download subcommand. Using this feature you will be able to directly download your email to your own machine using the traditional serial line file transfer protocols kermit, zmodem, xmodem, ymodem, or to print the mail directly to the terminal so that you may capture it in a file.

To use the download feature simply Export a letter and select Control-V (^V Download) from the submenu. You can use the Select, Apply, Export/Download command sequence to download your entire mail file or selected portions of it at one time in one file if you want. A download command is also provided in the attachments menus to directly download any attachments to a received email.

The downloaded mail files are in Berkeley Standard Format - i.e, all headers beginning with the 'From ' line - and are suitable for importing into other mail clients that support it.

An upload command is also defined for attachments. When selecting an attachment for a new piece of mail, select ^V Upload from the submenu and type in the name of the file to be upload. You'll have a choice of the following upload serial line transfer protocols: kermit, ymodem and zmodem (xmodem is only available for downloads). The uploaded file will be placed in your 'work' directory.

Other new features or options:

• You may now change the personal name that appears in your email and news articles.
• If you get disconnected Pine should do a better job of saving your partially written message. This does not apply if you let your online time expire.
• You can subscribe (Add) multiple news groups at one time by using the 'L'ist command in the news group selection list.
• You can edit your signature file from Pine. On the main Pine menu select Settings then Signature.
• Addressbook can now be exported, and its index printed.
• The Print command now allows you to print the content of the Index file.
• You can now configure Pine to send a Form Feed between printed mail messages (see the configuration options on the Main menu).
• More sorting options available in the Configuration section.
• The Cut Line command can be configured to Cut the line from the current cursor position to the end of the line, rather than the whole line.
• If you cancel a letter Pine will save the letter in a file called dead.letter in your work directory, this can be disabled.
• You can now set the column at which Pine will wrap text.
• You can also change the number of lines Pine will show from the previous page of text when paging through a message - the default is 2.

For advanced users:

• It's now possible to configure Pine to use Function Keys for commands instead of the current Control Key set. Due to the fact that many communications programs poorly implement the DEC VT escape sequences this is not a recommended option, however it may be worth a try if you have trouble using your Control keys to send commands.
• You can hide the help lines at the bottom of the screen - not recommended.
• You can now rearrange and personalize the information shown in the Index page. See the Index-Format setting in the Settings/Configuration options and read the online help for it (^G).
• You can now select which headers Pine will display when you are reading mail.
• You can configure pine to show the dialog between it and our SMTP or NNTP server program. This is a debug feature and not recommended since it slows things down on your end. You'll be shown a temporary file containing the text of the dialog between the client (Pine) and the server. You then have to close this file.

  Sample output:

  220 silverstem.com SMTP Server Ready
  HELO ftp
  250 silverstem.com
  MAIL From:<nobody@silverstem.com>
  250 Ok
  RCPT To:<nobody@silverstem.com>
  250 Ok
  DATA
  354 Start mail input; end with <CRLF>.<CRLF>
  250 Ok
  QUIT
  221 silverstem.com closing
  

See the Settings/Config options on the main Pine menu for others options not covered here.
All of your settings from Pine 3.91 will be carried over to Pine 3.96.

Any and all of the features listed above are subject to review and may be removed to conform to policy, support and/or technical requirements.

Buffalo Free-Net Technical Support Committee
Last updated: 06/10/97 07:32:56 PM