RELEASE NOTES for Pine -- A Program for Internet News and Email
Version 4.05
University of Washington
Contents of this page:
* Summary of Recent Changes
+ Changes in Pine 4.05
+ Changes in Pine 4.04
+ Changes in Pine 4.03
+ Changes in Pine 4.02
+ Changes in Pine 4.01
+ Things not fixed in Pine 4.05
+ Improvements made in Pine 4.00
* PC-Pine Notes
* Configuration
* Credits
* Legal Notices
Finding more information and requesting help
____________________________________________________________
Summary of Recent Changes
We have been very gratified by the response to Pine 4.00, both because it
is clear that many people still care about Pine, and also because,
notwithstanding some rough edges, folks seem to be generally pleased with
the new functionality. Thank you for your continuing interest and
support!
Changes in Pine 4.05
Version 4.05 is a maintenance release intended to address a bug in Pine's
newsgroup subscription code which caused Pine to deny that any newsgroups
existed, and thus prevent their being subscribed to. In addition, it
fixes:
* Crash: during aggregate undelete
* Crash: in index of empty folder
* PC-Pine: limited ability to launch app/o-s attachments
* PC-Pine: session timeouts when prompting (Save, Sort, etc)
Changes in Pine 4.04
Version 4.04 was mainly intended to fix a bug introduced in the imapd
program packaged with Pine 4.03 which rendered it incompatible with some
IMAP clients. In addition, the opportunity was taken to address several
bugs in Pine, PC-Pine and Pico.
The most notable fixes included:
* init_debug referenced when DEBUG macro not defined
* Forward of multipart from some IMAP servers breaks MIME delimiters
* Attachment delete command results in erroneous display
* Sender not included in Take if different from From
* Addresses missing when forwarding a distribution list
* Msg-ID reset when using form-letter-folder
* "incoming-archived" problems
* "read-message-folder" problems
* postpone breaks subject's RFC1522 encoding
* RFC1522 encoded subject not preserved after declined post
* Erroneous deleted and expunged counts when viewing newsgroups
* Search criteria complaints from pre-IMAP4 servers after TAB
* Select/Text unaware of local folder character set
* Search/Replace/All sometimes replaced with empty string
* collectionList Add: "server" with spaces not quoted
* implicit _URL_ quoting and mailcap defined launching problems
* expunge-without-confirm inconsistencies
* global addressbook vs. file permissions problem
* selected folders aren't on next visit to Folder List screen
* PORT: BSD/OS 2/3/4 issues resolved
* CRASH: "bad msgno 0" when current folder empty
* CRASH: viewing particularly formatted HTML
* CRASH: incoming folder nickname rename
* CRASH: Goto --> ^L
* CRASH: attaching files (mime.types formatting sensitivity)
* CRASH: PC: starting alternate editor
* PC-Pine: attachment save failure when path contains space
* PC-Pine: spell check forgets personal dictionary
* PC-Pine: view MIME app/octet-stream by extension fails
* Various documentation additions and corrections
Changes in Pine 4.03
Version 4.03 was also a maintenance release for Unix Pine, but also
represented the debut of PC-Pine version 4.xx. In addition, there were a
few new capabilities (listed below). For an extensive list of bugs fixed,
consult the section "Pine Release Chronology & Version Changes" in the
Pine Information Center.
* Inclusion of improved LDAP library support (courtesy Netscape Inc.)
* Index: New date format options
* By popular demand, revert to displaying multiple addresses per line
* URL Viewers variable: explicit URL quoting is no longer needed
* Address Book Setup: Allow use of {} on server name for consistency
* Address Book View: some minor format adjustments
* Address Book: after update, etc, go back to list of entries
* Changed text of lock error warning message to be more helpful:
* "Mailbox vulnerable - directory must have 1777 protection"
* Added support for Authenticated SMTP servers using "Simple
Authentication and Session Layer"
* Added support for POP authentication via "Simple Authentication and
Session Layer"
* More coherent "path resolution"
* Numerous PC-Pine improvements, including:
+ Use of Windows registry in lieu of mailcap and mimetypes files
+ Use of Windows registry to find default browser
+ Context sensitive right-mouse-button pop-up menus
+ Ability to copy/paste via keyboard commands, e.g. Ctl-Shift-V
+ Improved menus/dialog boxes
Changes in Pine 4.02
Version 4.02 was a maintenance release of 4.01, mainly intended to fix a
bug introduced in Pico version 3.1. The lone affect of this bug on Pine
proper was in the composer's periodic check point file output which,
under normal circumstances, is removed once a message being composed is
sent.
* fixed Pico over-quota protection code that under some conditions
caused a changed file to end up with one or more occurrences of the
letter 'U' appended to the old data followed by the new contents
* restored behavior of "enable-fast-recent-test" feature to be fast
when possible
Changes in Pine 4.01
The version 4.01 release was driven by the discovery of a security
vulnerability in the imapd program packaged with Pine 4.00. (The problem
exists in all previous versions of the University of Washington's IMAP4.1
server, too.) In the few days available, there was no time to correct
very many of the 4.00 bugs that have been reported, but a few of them
were corrected ...
* Included updated imapd with fix for security vulnerabilty.
* Added feature to "quell-folder-internal-msg"
+ Beginning with version 4.00, Pine supports enhanced functionality
for sites using the standard Unix mailbox format or the MMDF
mailbox format. It does this by creating a "pseudo-message" at
the beginning of the folder which holds the following values:
o unique identifier validity stamp
o last assigned unique identifer
o any keyword flags assigned to the mailbox
These values are essential for the correct operation of modern
IMAP and POP servers (which use persistent unique identifiers, or
UIDs), but Pine also needs them to support capabilities such as
being able to mark messages as Answered when the Reply has been
postponed, and (on systems where Unix or MMDF folder formats are
not standard), the ability to create a folder in one of these
formats. (Without the pseudo message to identify the mailbox
format type, the folder would be empty and Pine would not know
the desired format type for subsequent use.)
One disadvantage of this scheme is that mailers that are not
built on top of the University of Washington's message access
subroutine libraries will not "hide" the pseudo message from
users. Another disadvantage of having these pseudo messages is
that, when found in folders used to receive new messages, some
mail notification tools may be confused and behave incorrectly.
There are several solutions to this problem. For example, some
sites have modified the notification tools to ignore mailboxes
whose length corresponds to the pseudo message. However, these
pseudo messages may be deemed undesirable at sites where IMAP or
POP are not used, and where it is more important to support other
unmodified mail tools than to permit Pine to be able to mark
messages as Answered when the Reply is postponed. Accordingly,
Pine 4.01 offers a new feature to "quell-folder-internal-msg".
Note that this feature only relates to mailboxes in standard Unix
or MMDF format. See the help text for this feature (which is set
via the SETUP CONFIGURATION screen) for more details on its
effect.
* Removed extra newlines in some Reply cases
* Fixed incorrect header wrapping
* Fixed Pico temporary file permissions
* Fixed "Error preparing to close file: invalid argument"
* Fixed "Select Failed: [NOTIMAP4] Can't do peeking fetch]"
* Fixed "Search Failed: Unknown Search Criteria 1:524"
* Fixed "SEARCH ALL: IMAP COMMAND LINE TOO LONG"
* Fixed bug in determining "first-unread" message
* Fixed some build problems for SGI and SCO platforms
* Fixed some sorting problems with address books
* Fixed inability to specify "no fcc" in address book entries
+ You may enter "" (two double quotation marks) in the Fcc field of
the addressbook entry editor (not the message composer) to
specify that the message should not be saved to a folder when
using this entry. (It no longer works to specify "/dev/null").
* Added notification related to "mbox" driver
* Revised "new user" message and prompt (and docserver behavior)
* Reorganized Pine ports document to group them by vendor
* Added explanation of "Mailbox vulnerable" warning in Release Notes
* Added ability to specify user name on nntp-server via "/user=" syntax
Things not fixed in Pine 4.05
* The "expanded-view-of-folders" feature is still gone
+ Many of you noticed that this feature was retired in Pine 4.00
... and were not pleased. Accordingly, we will be investigating
the feasibility of restoring this feature while still offering
the new hierarchical folder support.
Regarding mail disappearing from the system spool directory:
Beginning with Pine 4.00 (but also with earlier versions of the
University of Washington's imapd server), a new INBOX access method
is available as part of the standard configuration. It is called
the "mbox" driver and it works like this:
If the file "mbox" exists in the user's home directory, and is in
Unix mailbox format, then when INBOX is opened this file will be
selected as INBOX instead of the mail spool file. Messages will be
automatically transferred from the mail spool file into the mbox
file. Beginning with Pine 4.01, a message is displayed whenever
Pine copies messages from the system mail spool directory to the
mbox file.
The advantage of this method is that, after new mail has been
copied from the system mail spool, all subsequent access is
confined to the user's home directory, which is desirable on some
systems. However, a possible disadvantage is that mail tools other
than those from the University of Washington will not know to look
for mail in the user's mbox file. For example, POP or IMAP servers
other than those from the University of Washington, and many "new
mail notification" programs may not work as expected with this
driver enabled.
To disable this behavior, either remove/rename the "mbox" file or
find the "disable-these-drivers=" variable in your Pine
configuration file and add "mbox" to it. You must manually edit the
config file so that you see the following:
disable-these-drivers=mbox
____________________________________________________________
Improvements made in Pine 4.00
* New screen navigation commands:
< (the "less than" symbol) for "level up"
> (the "greater than" symbol) for "level down"
+ No need to Shift for < and > keys (just use , and . keys)
+ Optional use of left and right arrow keys for same functions as <
and > keys (by setting "enable-arrow-navigation" feature)
* Hierarchical folder collections
+ If multiple folder collections are defined, they are now
presented in a COLLECTION LIST screen. Choosing a folder
collection from this screen displays its FOLDER LIST screen.
(Previous versions of Pine showed all folder collections in one
FOLDER LIST screen.)
+ When a folder is added to a collection in the FOLDER LIST screen,
it can now also be defined to be a subdirectory (rather than a
mailfolder-file containing messages), using the new command "^X
Create Directory" at the "Folder name to add :" prompt. Each such
subdirectory can contain mail folders and/or other
subdirectories, thus allowing for the creation of a hierarchical
structure within each folder collection.
* URL recognition and viewer dispatch
+ With Pine now capable of recognizing URLs and dispatching your
favorite web browser to view them, it is now straightforward to
access additional web-based information about Pine. Accordingly,
the Update command on Pine's SETUP menu has been retired.
* Basic rendering of message bodies in HTML format
* Help screens with hyperlinks to other help screens and dynamic
content (for example, showing current working directory)
* Addressbooks improvements
+ Revised screens and commands
+ Can now store addressbook on IMAP server. This permits access to
the same addressbook from different computers running Unix or PC
Pine 4.05. (These remote addressbooks cannot be used by other
email clients.)
+ Aggregate operations
+ LDAP support
* Various MIME improvements
* IMAP4.1 protocol revisions (but no disconnected or offline mode yet)
+ The UNIX format support now maintains unique identifiers (UIDs)
and keyword flags for each message, and keeps a message at the
start of the file which contains the UID base information and a
list of assigned keywords. There is no way to disable this
behavior, since it would disable IMAP4rev1 support. This message
may show up if you access the mailbox as a file using older mail
software (e.g. Pine 3.9x). It is invisible with IMAP or POP
access, or with access as a file using Pine 4.05. Also see Pine
4.01's new feature quell-folder-internal-msg.
* Support for LDAP directory access and Kerberos V authentication if
suitable libraries (U. of Michigan LDAP, MIT GSSAPI) are provided at
compile time (see Pine's Technical Notes for details). More
information on LDAP and on Kerberos can be found on the World Wide
Web at the following URLs (as of 29 June 1998), respectively:
http://www.umich.edu/~dirsvcs/ldap/
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/
* Enhanced functions
+ GoTo and Save commands:
o Use TAB to complete, TAB TAB to list matches beginning with
entered string (when "enable-tab-completion" feature is set)
o ^X lists folder names matching substring (when
"enable-partial-match-lists" feature is set)
+ GoTo command has more default options, e.g. always stay in
primary collection
+ Folder List:
o Select/Zoom based on text match or folder properties
o Select can search multiple folders
+ SETUP:
o Can edit incoming folder collection, (e.g. delete entry, not
folder)
o New setup screens (folder collections, address books,
directories)
* Composer improvements
+ "Answered" flag now set when postponed replies are sent
+ Search and replace feature
+ Cut-from-cursor feature now works in header
+ Configurable reply-indent-string
+ Can request various Delivery Service Notification options
* Preferences improvements
+ New selections on the SETUP menu (accessed from the MAIN MENU
screen):
o collectionList - for defining folder collections (moved here
from being a single option - "folder-collections" - in SETUP
CONFIGURATION)
o AddressBooks - for defining address books
o Directory - for defining LDAP directory servers - this
selection is only available on the SETUP menu if your version
of Pine was compiled with LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol) access support. For information on LDAP, visit the
University of Michigan's WWW site at the URL (as of 29 June
1998):
http://www.umich.edu/~dirsvcs/ldap/
+ New features in SETUP CONFIGURATION:
o disable-take-last-comma-first
o enable-arrow-navigation
o enable-delivery-status-notification
o enable-exit-via-lessthan-command
o enable-fast-recent-test
o enable-lame-list-mode
o enable-msg-view-attachments
o enable-msg-view-urls
o enable-msg-view-web-hostnames
o enable-msg-view-forced-arrows
o enable-print-via-y-command (to allow Pine 3.9 style "Y" as
well as Pine 4's "%" as print command)
o enable-reply-indent-string-editing
o enable-search-and-replace
o enable-sigdashes
o enable-partial-match-lists
o expunge-without-confirm-everywhere
o ldap-result-to-addrbook-add
o news-deletes-across-groups
+ New, "hidden" features - must be manually added to .pinerc file,
cannot be set in SETUP CONFIGURATION screen:
o allow-changing-from
o quell-partial-fetching
o termdef-takes-precedence
For details, see Pine 4.05's Technical Notes.
+ New variables in configuration (.pinerc) file:
o incoming-startup-rule:
Sets message which cursor begins on.
o url-viewers:
List of programs to open Internet URLs (e.g. http or ftp
references).
o ldap-servers:
LDAP servers for looking up addresses (set using SETUP
DIRECTORY SERVERS screen).
o folder-sort-rule:
Defines method used to sort FOLDER LIST screen
o form-letter-folder:
Defines folder to hold oft-sent, semi-static messages
+ New Index-Format option token "ATT" to show number of attachments
to message
+ Superceded features in configuration (.pinerc) file:
o expanded-view-of-addressbooks
o expanded-view-of-folders
o disable-update-cmd
* Miscellaneous improvements
+ Bug report screen and Report Bug command replaced by help screen
covering "Places to Look for More Answers" and "Requesting help"
with hyperlinks to it from many other help screens
+ Performance:
o Server-based sorting
o Fast ordered-subject threading including IMAP server based
threading
o Quicker display of index entries and message text
o Reduced memory use for default Unix mailbox format
o No longer keeps entire mailbox in memory
+ Revised debug options to allow more flexibility
+ New local file formats mbx and mx
+ New "Mailbox vulnerable" warning message
o This message indicates that Pine was not able to create the
lockfile needed on most systems to coordinate access between
Pine and the system's mail delivery program. The failure is
typically a result of unduly restrictive protections on the
system mail spool directory. The recommended solution is to
set the permissions on that directory to 1777. Warning: some
sites have installed Pine as a privileged setgid program in
order to avoid having to make the spool directory
world-writable. We strongly recommend against doing this, as
Pine was never designed to run with privileges and represents
a significant security risk if operated in that mode. For
more information on this topic, including why setting one's
mail spool directory to 1777 is not a security risk, please
see "What Systems Managers Need to Know about Pine File
Locking".
+ Support for news access via IMAP by proxying through the
University of Washington-developed IMAP server; syntax:
{IMAPservername}{newsservername/nntp}#news.newsgroupname
+ E - Exit key used more consistently as way out of SETUP or SELECT
screens
+ Screen showing list of messages in a folder renamed from FOLDER
INDEX to MESSAGE INDEX
+ pico -h option to display current command line options & current
version
+ Multilingual searching of the following character sets supported:
US-ASCII, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-3, ISO-8859-4,
ISO-8859-5, ISO-8859-6, ISO-8859-7, ISO-8859-8, ISO-8859-9,
ISO-8859-10, ISO-8859-13, ISO-8859-15, ISO-2022-JP, ISO-2022-KR,
ISO-2022-CN, ISO-2022-JP-1, ISO-2022-JP-2, GB2312 (alias CN-GB),
CN-GB-12345, BIG5 (alias CN-BIG5), EUC-JP, EUC-KR, Shift_JIS,
KOI8-R, KOI8-U (alias KOI8-RU), TIS-620, VISCII.
All ISO-2022-?? charsets are treated identically, and support
ASCII, JIS Roman, hankaku katakana, ISO-8859-[1 - 10], TIS, GB
2312, JIS X 0208, JIS X 0212, KSC 5601, and planes 1 and 2 of CNS
11643. EUC-JP includes support for JIS X 0212 and hankaku
katakana.
+ Pico 255 character line length limit: wrap instead of truncate
+ Numerous bug fixes
* Not yet done in 4.05
The following features have been deferred for inclusion in a future
version of Pine:
+ "Kill" files
+ Offline operation
+ Disconnected operation
____________________________________________________________
New and improved in previous releases
For changes to Pine versions in previous releases, please consult the
section "Pine Release Chronology & Version Changes" in the Pine
Information Center at:
http://www.washington.edu/pine/changes.html
____________________________________________________________
PC-Pine Notes
PC-Pine 4.05 is available for 32 bit Windows only. And while it is not a
full GUI Windows application, it supports numerous GUI amenities,
including: tool bar, scroll bar, pull-down menus, pop-up menus, expanded
mouse support, etc.
New in PC-Pine 4.00:
* Built-in LDAP directory service support.
* Remote addressbook support. The addressbook can be stored on an IMAP
server, so it can be accessed from different computers running Unix
Pine or PC-Pine 4.05. See Setup/AddressBooks screen for more details.
* POP support (though not in traditional offline mode).
* Built-in spell checking.
* Integration with Windows registry simplifies configuration for
attachment viewing and sending.
* Full READ-WRITE access to local Unix-style folders.
Additional notes:
* While message folders may be either local or remote, Pine's support
files must, generally speaking, be located on your PC's local disk.
These files include Pine's configuration file (PINERC), signature
file (PINE.SIG), interrupted message folder, and debug files. Two
files that are by default also located on your PC's local disk may be
instead located on a remote host:
1. The postponed messages folder can be defined in the Setup/Config
to be on an IMAP server. This allows it to be accessible from
both Unix Pine and PC-Pine thus allowing you to, for example,
begin composing a message in Unix Pine, postpone it, and resume
its composition later with PC-Pine, provided that both Pine
configurations specify the same postponed messages folder
location. For example:
{myIMAPhost.myschool.k12.wa.us}mail/postponed
2. It's also possible, depending on your local system configuration,
to arrange remote access to your NEWSRC as well. The advantage,
as with the postponed message folder, is that both Unix Pine and
PC-Pine can refer to the same information. See the Main Menu's
help text section on "Reading News" for more information.
* The PC-Pine message folder format is based on byte-counts for maximum
efficiency, so they must not be edited. The format is non-standard,
but conversion utilities would not be difficult. This format is
supported in Unix Pine as well.
____________________________________________________________
Configuration
Configuration precedence
There are several levels of Pine configuration. Configuration values at a
given level override corresponding values at lower levels. In order of
increasing precedence:
* built-in defaults
* system-wide pine.conf file
* personal .pinerc file (may be set via built-in Setup/Config menu.)
* command-line options
* system-wide pine.conf.fixed file
There is one exception to the rule that configuration values are replaced
by the value of the same option in a higher-precedence file: the
feature-list variable has values that are additive, but can be negated by
prepending "no-" in front of an individual feature name. Note, this is
done automatically for you when you change these values via the
Setup/Config command.
File name defaults
Notes:
<exe dir> = directory where pine.exe found.
<pinerc dir> = directory where pinerc found.
# = default file name is overridable in pinerc.
$HOME, if not explicitly set, defaults to root of the current drive.
$MAILCAPS, if set, is used in lieu of the default mailcap search paths.
+ between the mailcap paths implies that the two files are combined.
; between other default paths implies that the first one found is used.
Pine looks for most support files in the same directory it finds its
personal configuration file (pinerc). The -p command-line flag may be
used to specify a particular path name for the pinerc file. If a pinerc
file does not exist, it will be created (if directory permissions allow).
In PC-Pine, if -p or $PINERC are not defined, Pine will look in
$HOME\PINE and the directory containing the PINE.EXE. If a PINERC file
does not exist in either one, it will create one in the first of those
two directories that is writable. In detail:
PC-Pine:
executable <DOS search path>\pine.exe
help index <exe dir>\pine.ndx
help text <exe dir>\pine.hlp
pers config $PINERC ; $HOME\pine\pinerc ; <exe dir>\pinerc
global cfg $PINECONF
password <pinerc dir>\pine.pwd
debug <pinerc dir>\pinedebg.txt
crash <pinerc dir>\pinecrsh.txt
signature# <pinerc dir>\pine.sig
addressbook# <pinerc dir>\addrbook
addrbook lu <pinerc dir>\addrbook.lu (appends .lu to addrbk name.)
mailcap# <pinerc dir>\mailcap + <exe dir>\mailcap
mimetypes# <pinerc dir>\mimetype + <exe dir>\mimetype
newsrc# $HOME\newsrc (if exists, else) <pinerc dir>\newsrc
sentmail# $HOME\mail\sentmail.mtx
postponed# $HOME\mail\postpond.mtx
interrupted $HOME\mail\intruptd
Unix Pine:
executable <Unix search path>/pine
persnl cfg ~/.pinerc
global cfg /usr/local/lib/pine.conf
fixed cfg /usr/local/lib/pine.conf.fixed
local help /usr/local/lib/pine.info
interrupted ~/.pine-interrupted-mail
debug ~/.pine-debugN
crash ~/.pine-crash
newsrc# ~/.newsrc
signature# <pinerc dir>/.signature
addressbook# <pinerc dir>/.addressbook
addrbook lu <pinerc dir>/.addressbook.lu (appends .lu to addrbk name.)
postponed# ~/mail/postponed-msgs
sentmail# ~/mail/sent-mail
mailcap# ~/.mailcap + /etc/mailcap
+ /usr/etc/mailcap + /usr/local/etc/mailcap
mimetypes# ~/.mime.types + /etc/mime.types + /usr/local/lib/mime.types
news-spool varies across Unix flavors, e.g. /usr/spool/news or /var/news
active-news varies across Unix flavors, e.g. /usr/lib/news/active
lock files /tmp/.\usr\spool\mail\xxxx
inbox /usr/spool/mail/xxxx
password /etc/passwd
Unix Pine and PC-Pine:
.ab* remote addressbook support files
a[1-9]* temporary (while Pine is running) addressbook files
Mailcap files
Pine honors the mailcap configuration system for specifying external
programs for handling attachments. The mailcap file maps MIME attachment
types to the external programs loaded on your system which can display
and/or print the file. A sample mailcap file comes bundled with the Pine
distribution. It includes comments which explain the syntax you need to
use for mailcap. With the mailcap file, any program (mail readers,
newsreaders, WWW clients) can use the same configuration for handling
MIME-encoded data.
MIME-Types files
Pine uses mime-types files (.mime.types or MIMETYPE) to determine what
Content-Type to use for labeling an attached file, based on the file
extension. That is, this file provides a mapping between filename
extensions and MIME content-types.
Environment variables
PC-Pine uses the following environment variables:
PINERC
Optional path to pinerc file.
PINECONF
Optional path to global pine config file.
HOME
TMP or TEMP
COMSPEC
MAILCAPS
A semicolon delimited list of path names to mailcap files.
USER_DICTIONARY
Used to specify the file to contain the user's spell check
dictionary. The default is DICT.U in the same directory as the
SPELL32.DLL
Unix Pine uses the following environment variables:
TERM
Tells Pine what kind of terminal is being used.
DISPLAY
Determines if Pine will try to display IMAGE attachments.
SHELL
If not set, default is "/bin/sh".
MAILCAPS
A colon delimited list of path names to mailcap files.
____________________________________________________________
Credits
The University of Washington Pine development team (part of the
University of Washington Office of Computing& Communications) includes:
Project Leader: Mike Seibel
Principal authors: Mike Seibel, Steve Hubert, Laurence Lundblade*
C-Client library & IMAPd: Mark Crispin
Pico, the PIne COmposer: Mike Seibel
Bug triage, user support: David Miller*
Pine Web Pages: Stefan Kramer, David Miller*
Documentation: Many people!
PC-Pine: Tom Unger, Mike Seibel
Project oversight: Terry Gray, Lori Stevens
Principal Patrons: Ron Johnson, Mike Bryant
Additional support: NorthWestNet
Initial Pine code base: Elm, by Dave Taylor & USENET Community Trust
Initial Pico code base: MicroEmacs 3.6, by Dave G. Conroy
User Interface design: Inspired by UCLA's "Ben" mailer for MVS
* Emeritus
We'd also like to acknowledge the following contributions and contributors:
Pine for VMS: Portia Shao and Yehavi Bourvine
Pine for OS/2: David Nugent
Special mention: David Wall
Bug reports, bug fixes, ports, suggestions & encouragement:
The world-wide Pine community, including...
Shoa Aminpour Richard Gering Richard Murphy
J.J. Baily Gordon Good Il Oh
Billy Barron Bob Gregory Mike Ramey
Chris Beecher Ed Greshko Phil Rand
John Benjamins Dmitri L. Gringauz Jochiam Richter
Birko Bergt David Halliwell Thomas Riemer
Ken Bobey Peter Hausken Tim Rice
Andy Brager Jeff Hayward Alexis Rosen
D.K. Brownlee Ron Johnson Michael Ross
Brian Burriston William Kreuter Bob Sandstrom
Bill Campbell Pekka Kytolaakso Michael F. Santangelo
Russel Campbell Barry Landy Shin-ya Satoh
Donn Cave Chris Latham Corey Satten
Richard Cheever Jon Lebo Michael Shepard
Mike Coghlan Allen Leonard Vladimir Solnicky
Justine Comer Robert L. Lewis Alan Thew
Chuck Cooper Bruce Lilly Jason R. Thorpe
Barry Cornelius Matthew Lyle Rick Troxel
Michael A. Crowley John Mackin Marc Unangst
Judith M. Dixon James Matheson Edward Vielmetti
Jeff D. Doran Nancy McGough Ross Wakelin
Tony Flemming Mark McNair Rich Wales
Matthew Freedman Pete Mellor David Wall
Richard Fritz Dave Miller Bob Williams
Marcelo A. Gallardo Don Miller Steve Woodyatt
Adam Garrett Robert Morris
And many others... Our thanks to all!
____________________________________________________________
The most recent Pine version is available in source form via anonymous
FTP from Internet host ftp.cac.washington.edu in the file
/pine/pine.tar.Z.
More Pine files and information (e.g., pre-built binaries, FAQs,
technical documentation and history) are available via FTP or WWW:
ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/
http://www.washington.edu/pine/
Legal Notices
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.
Pine, Pico, and Pilot software and its included text are Copyright
1989-1998 by the University of Washington.
Use of Pine/Pico/Pilot: You may compile and execute these programs for
any purpose, including commercial, without paying anything to the
University of Washington, provided that the legal notices are maintained
intact and honored.
Local modification of this release is permitted as follows, or by mutual
agreement: In order to reduce confusion and facilitate debugging, we
request that locally modified versions be denoted by appending the letter
"L" to the current version number, and that the local changes be
enumerated in the integral release notes and associated documentation.
Redistribution of the Pine source code release is permitted as follows,
or by mutual agreement:
(a) In free-of-charge or at-cost distributions by non-profit concerns;
(b) In free-of-charge distributions by for-profit concerns;
(c) Inclusion in a CD-ROM collection of free-of-charge, shareware, or
non-proprietary software for which a fee may be charged for the packaged
distribution.
Redistribution of binary versions is further constrained by license
agreements for incorporated libraries from third parties, e.g. LDAP,
GSSAPI.
The University of Washington encourages unrestricted distribution of
individual patches to the Pine system. By "patches" we mean "difference"
files that can be applied to the University of Washington Pine source
distribution in order to accomplish bug fixes, minor enhancements, or
adaptation to new operating systems. Submission of these patches to
University of Washington for possible inclusion in future Pine versions
is also encouraged.
The above permissions are hereby granted, provided that the Pine and Pico
copyright and trademark notices appear in all copies and that both the
above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
documentation, and that the name of the University of Washington not be
used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the
software without specific, prior written permission. This software is
made available "as is", and
THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ALL
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE, AND IN NO EVENT SHALL THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BE LIABLE FOR
ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER
RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF
CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) OR STRICT LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF
OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
____________________________________________________________
<End of Release Notes>