From dlm@shivafs.cac.washington.edu Wed Aug 24 09:26:18 1994
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 95 16:35:48 -0800
From: The Pine Development Team <pine-faq@docserver.cac.washington.edu>
Subject: Where is the latest Pine FAQ?
Status: RO
X-Status: 


The most up-to-date version of the Pine FAQ can be found at any of these places: 

   http://www.cac.washington.edu/pine/faq/
   ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/docs/faq.mbox
   mailto:pine-faq@docserver.cac.washington.edu

It may also be accessed in Pine as a folder-collection by adding

	*{ftp.cac.washington.edu/anonymous}pine/pine-info/[]

to your "folder-collections" list in the Setup/Config screen (Pine 3.90 
and higher) or in your .pinerc file (Pine 3.85 and higher).


 Pine and Pico are registered trademarks of the University of Washington.

 Copyright 1995 by the University of Washington.


From dlm@shivafs.cac.washington.edu Wed Aug 24 09:26:18 1994
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 95 15:40:48 -0800
From: The Pine Development Team <pine-faq@docserver.cac.washington.edu>
Subject: What is Pine?
Status: RO
X-Status: 

Pine(tm) --a Program for Internet News & Email-- is 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. RFC822, SMTP, MIME, IMAP, and NNTP) and runs on Unix, MS-DOS, and
MS Windows. 
  
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.  It has the ability to perform full screen editing of messages,
include and extract attachments (such as Word or Excel files), and other
advanced message system features. 

Pine uses IMAP for accessing message folders on remote computers and MIME
for sending multimedia or other binary files as attachments to normal
messages. 

From dlm@shivafs.cac.washington.edu Wed Aug 24 09:26:18 1994
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 95 15:40:48 -0800
From: The Pine Development Team <pine-faq@docserver.cac.washington.edu>
Subject: What is MIME?
Status: RO
X-Status: 

MIME (RFC1521) stands for "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions". It is
an Internet standard which allows transfer of binary files
(word-processing documents, spreadsheets, images, sounds, etc) between any
compliant mailers. You can get technical information about MIME from the
RFC. Ongoing discussion on MIME takes place in the newsgroup
comp.mail.mime. There is also a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list that
is posted regularly to comp.mail.mime, comp.answers and news.answers. 
If you have a Web browser you can access it through:

http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/bngusenet/comp/mail/mime/top.html

From dlm@shivafs.cac.washington.edu Wed Aug 24 09:26:18 1994
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 95 15:40:48 -0800
From: The Pine Development Team <pine-faq@docserver.cac.washington.edu>
Subject: What is IMAP?
Status: RO
X-Status: 

IMAP stands for "Internet Message Access Protocol". An IMAP client program
on any platform at any location on the Internet can access email folders
on an IMAP server. While the messages appear to be local, they reside on
the server until the client explicitly moves or deletes them.  The IMAP
protocol is a functional (but incompatible) superset of POP. A principal
advantage of IMAP over POP is that it permits using more than one computer
to access your mail.  Using multiple computers with POP typically results
in your mail ending up scattered across all of those computers. Another
key advantage is IMAP's ability to selectively access parts of messages,
e.g. you don't have to wait for a 2MB audio attachment to be retrieved
until you specifically ask for it.  This is a big win over low-speed (e.g.
dialup) connections.  For a detailed comparison of IMAP and POP, see the
paper "Comparing Two Approaches to Remote Mailbox Access: IMAP vs. POP." 
It is available from: 

	ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/imap.vs.pop
  
IMAP is what allows Pine (or any other IMAP client) to access email on a
remote mail server, usually one that is shared (central or departmental). 
The current IMAP4 Proposed Standard is described in RFC1730.  Additional
information is included in RFC1731, RFC1732, and RFC1733. 

From dlm@shivafs.cac.washington.edu Wed Aug 24 09:26:18 1994
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 95 15:40:48 -0800
From: The Pine Development Team <pine-faq@docserver.cac.washington.edu>
Subject: How can I get a copy of Pine?
Status: RO
X-Status: 

Pine is available via anonymous ftp from the pine directory of
ftp.cac.washington.edu. 

From dlm@shivafs.cac.washington.edu Wed Aug 24 09:26:18 1994
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 95 15:40:48 -0800
From: The Pine Development Team <pine-faq@docserver.cac.washington.edu>
Subject: What documentation is available?
Status: RO
X-Status: 

The Pine program itself includes extensive online help.  Additional
documentation may be found via anonymous FTP or via World-Wide-Web at the
following locations: 

  ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/docs
  http://www.cac.washington.edu/pine

The following contributed documentation is also available:

  http://www.math.utah.edu/~calfeld/creations/ca_pine_guide.html
  http://www.math.utah.edu/~calfeld/creations/PineIntroduction
  http://www.math.utah.edu/~calfeld/creations/PineIntermediate

If you have documentation that you would like to share, please mail
pine@cac.washington.edu a pointer to them and we'll include it here. 

From dlm@shivafs.cac.washington.edu Wed Aug 24 09:26:18 1994
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 95 15:40:48 -0800
From: The Pine Development Team <pine-faq@docserver.cac.washington.edu>
Subject: What mailing lists and newsgroups are there dealing with Pine?
Status: RO
X-Status: 

The "comp.mail.pine" newsgroup is devoted to Pine.  It is bi-directionally
gatewayed to the "pine-info" mailing list described below. 

   The following mailing lists deal with Pine and related topics: 
   
   Pine-Info@cac.washington.edu 
          Pine-Info is a mailing list for the email program Pine. The
          mailing list includes discussion of Pine features, bugs,
          tricks, etc. Often technical and installation questions appear
          on the list. New releases, fixes and version of Pine are
          announced on the pine-info mailing list.  For official 
          announcements only, you may wish to see pine-announce instead 
          of this list.
          
          To subscribe to pine-info, send a message to
          majordomo@cac.washington.edu with 
                  subscribe pine-info
 	  in the body of the message.
          
          Owners of this mailing list can be contacted at
          owner-pine-info@cac.washington.edu. 
          
   Pine-Announce@cac.washington.edu 
          Pine-Announce is a announcement list for the email program
          Pine. When new Pine products are released and old ones updated,
          a message goes out to this group describing the development. It
          is a very low volume list and includes no discussion
          whatsoever.
          
          NOTE: All messages to this list are automatically forwarded to
          pine-info, so it is not necessary to subscribe to both lists!
          
          To subscribe to pine-announce, send a message to
          majordomo@cac.washington.edu with 
                  subscribe pine-announce
	  in the body of the message.
          
          Owners of this mailing list can be contacted at
          owner-pine-announce@cac.washington.edu.
          
   IMAP@CAC.Washington.EDU 
          This is the official mailing list for the IETF IMAP working
          group and other interested parties. Discussion of the evolving
          IMAP standard and related issues is conducted on this list.
          
          To subscribe to IMAP, send a message to
          imap-request@cac.washington.edu.
          
   C-Client@CAC.Washington.EDU 
          This list is for discussion of the C-Client library which is
          used by Pine and various other mail and IMAP clients and
          servers.
          
          To subscribe to C-Client, send any message to
          c-client-request@cac.washington.edu.

From dlm@shivafs.cac.washington.edu Wed Aug 24 09:26:18 1994
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 95 15:40:48 -0800
From: The Pine Development Team <pine-faq@docserver.cac.washington.edu>
Subject: How many sites use Pine?
Status: RO
X-Status: 

Based on the number of people getting copies of Pine and its
documentation, we know for sure that Pine is used at over 12,000 sites in
60 different countries.  We do not have any way to count the exact number
of sites using Pine or the total number of users, but we estimate that 
well over one million people use Pine right now (12/94).  People are still
jumping on the Pine bandwagon -- about 4,000 new users each day -- so any
guess about the number of people who use Pine today will surely be too
small tomorrow. 

From dlm@shivafs.cac.washington.edu Wed Aug 24 09:26:18 1994
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 95 15:40:48 -0800
From: The Pine Development Team <pine-faq@docserver.cac.washington.edu>
Subject: Can we use Pine source code in commercial products?
Status: RO
X-Status: 


Pine and C-client source code is copyright by the University of
Washington, however it may be used without fee to the University of
Washington, even for commercial purposes, subject to the terms of the
copyright notice in the code.  

If you want to use Pine code in commercial products, you must retain the
indication of UW trademark and copyright and we ask that you also
"explicitly and conspiciously" indicate that there is no business
relationship of any kind between you and the University of Washington. 
Note that the copyright restrictions may not be the same in all versions
of the code, but the general information above pertains to all versions of
Pine up to and including the current 3.91 release. 

A related issue concerns use of the name Pine...

 "Pine and Pico are registered trademarks of the University of Washington.
  No commercial use of these trademarks may be made without prior
  written permission of the University of Washington."

If you have any doubts about what you need to do to use Pine commercially,
write to the Pine Development Team <pine@cac.washington.edu> and ask. 

From dlm@shivafs.cac.washington.edu Wed Aug 23 15:00:35 1995
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 15:00:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: The Pine Development Team <pine-faq@docserver.cac.washington.edu>
Subject: How do I submit a question (and answer) for the Pine FAQ?
Status: RO
X-Status: 


To submit a question and answer to the Pine Development Team for
inclusion in the Pine Frequently Asked Questions lists:

- Send it as a message to pine+faq@cac.washington.edu.

- The Subject: line should consist of the question, exactly as it
should appear in the FAQ.

- The body of the message should be the answer, exactly as it should
appear in the text FAQ.

- Comments not part of the question and answer should be sent in a
separate message.  If you do not want to be credited in the FAQ,
please tell us in a separate message so we can remove your name.

- Make the answer as generic as possible.

	+ Avoid references to specific versions of Pine in the
	question and answer.

	+ Avoid terminology, references, directory paths, etc, that
	are specific to one platform, installation or site.

- If possible, references to sources of software, additional
documentation, etc, should be in the form of a URL pointing to the
primary source.

- URLs should be placed on a separate line and indented from the text.

The Pine Team will evaluate the question and answer for accuracy,
clarity, and appropriateness.  Digest, text, and HTML forms of the FAQ
are generated automatically from the message.

