[LI] INFO: About Pine 4.21!

[Sachin Garg <sachin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To all Pine lovers out there,

Just downloaded Pine 4.21 and built it! Now, this may not be news to
people who are used to pine4 earlier, but for me its new, so
pl. excuse my exuberance :)

It *is* way cool. I still like using Pine b'cos:

1) I can use the same MUA (Mail User Agent) on the Linux Console, in
an Xterm under X or on a slow telnet session!

2) It keeps my messages using the Unix mbox format, which though not
really great, but i can access my mail using primitive stuff like
mailx and not so primitive like elm!

So, what is nice in 4.21 (compared to 3.96):

I can configure URL-viewers, reply string, reply leadins, also
something called roles.

Though, the documentation about configuring URL-viewers wasn't exactly
correct, so for those who want to do this, I am putting something
here (from my .pinerc and pine.conf):

# List of programs to open Internet URLs (e.g. http or ftp
references). 
url-viewers= _TEST("test -L ${HOME}/.netscape/lock")_
"/usr/local/bin/netscape -remote 'openURL(_URL_, new-window)' &",
_TEST("test -n '${DISPLAY}'")_ "/usr/local/bin/netscape
-no-about-splash -geometry 700x800+80+5 _URL_ &", 
"color_xterm -ls -sb-fn 10x20 -e /usr/local/bin/lynx _URL_ &"

what this means is:

IF there is a symbolic link called $HOME/.netscape/lock, 
THEN 
 open the URL using remote netscape invocation in a new window
ELSE IF the $DISPLAY environment variable is set
 open the URL by launching netscape
ELSE 
 open the URL by launching lynx in a new XTERM

Works quite well!

sachin

-- 

Hubbard's Law:
        Don't take life too seriously; you won't get out of it alive.
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                 Sachin Garg, Member Technical Staff 
      Centre for Development of Advanced Computing,BANGALORE,INDIA  
     Phone: +91-80-5584271 Fax: +91-80-5584893 Res: +91-80-524 6655
               http://sangam.cjb.net <sachin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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