Pine
Program for Internet News & Email. A tool for reading, sending, and managing
electronic messages. It was designed specifically with novice computer users in
mind, but can be tailored to accommodate the needs of "power users" as well.
Pine uses Internet message protocols (e.g. RFC 822, SMTP, MIME, IMAP, NNTP) and
runs under Unix and MS-DOS.
The guiding principles for Pine's user-interface were: careful limitation of
features, one-character mnemonic commands, always-present command menus,
immediate user feedback, and high tolerance for user mistakes. It is intended
that Pine can be learned by exploration rather than reading manuals. Feedback
from the University of Washington community and a growing number of Internet
sites has been encouraging.
Pine's message composition editor, Pico, is also available as a separate
stand-alone program. Pico is a very simple and easy-to-use text editor offering
paragraph justification, cut/paste, and a spelling checker.
Pine features on-line help; a message index showing a message summary which
includes the status, sender, size, date and subject of messages; commands to
view and process messages; a message composer with easy-to-use editor and
spelling checker; an address book for saving long complex addresses and personal
distribution lists under a nickname; message attachments via Multipurpose
Internet Mail Extensions; folder management commands for creating, deleting,
listing, or renaming message folders; access to remote message folders and
archives via the Interactive Mail Access Protocol as defined in RFC 1176; access
to Usenet news via NNTP or IMAP.
Pine, Pico and UW's IMAP server are copyrighted but freely available.
Unix Pine runs on Ultrix, AIX, SunOS, SVR4 and PTX. PC-Pine is available for
Packet Driver, Novell LWP, FTP PC/TCP and Sun PC/NFS. A Microsoft
Windows/WinSock version is planned, as are extensions for off-line use.
Pine was originally based on Elm but has evolved much since ("Pine Is No-longer
Elm"). Pine is the work of Mike Seibel, Mark Crispin, Steve Hubert, Sheryl Erez,
David Miller and Laurence Lundblade (now at Virginia Tech) at the University of
Washington Office of Computing and Communications.
ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/pine.tar.Z.
telnet://demo.cac.washington.edu/ (login as "pinedemo").
E-mail: <pine@cac.washington.edu>,
<pine-info-request@cac.washington.edu>,
<pine-announce-request@cac.washington.edu>.
(21 Sep 93)
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