Re: [MLUG] pine on bengal...

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Jonathan King wrote:

> # Effective August 15th, 2004, the Pine application is no longer available.   #
[snip]
> Dang.  Double dang.  I have a lot of mail to clear out of my bengal 
> account, A whole lot.  No, I don't use Outlook or any of the "usual" 
> tools.  I could be persuaded to try Mail on OS X.  But job one is to 
> figure out how to slurp up many megs of mail from my inbox.  In the 
> olden days, that was as easy as mv-ing the spool file itself, but I 
> guess that's not the current best practice.  (Yes, that's a joke, but 
> no, I did used to do it that way.)

I'm not sure I understand the problem.  First, why can't you just copy a 
Pine executable to your ~/bin directory on Bengal and use that?  I would 
also ask them why they are deleting the pine executable!  Second, why 
can't you just scp/sftp your mail files to another machine?

Mike
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