Revised 2005-09-28 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The PINE Message System ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- LATEST PINE VERSION = 4.64, released 2005-09-28 For the latest info on Pine, see: http://www.washington.edu/pine/. Unix Pine, Pico, Pilot, imapd, rpload, rpdump, and mailutil _binaries_ are only accessible from http://www.washington.edu/pine/. The PC-Pine distribution is in the pcpine subdirectory. See pcpine/README for more information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- What you'll find in this directory: README - This file. pine.tar.Z - Pine/Pico/IMAPd source distribution for latest version pine4.64.tar.Z - Same as above pine.tar.gz - Same as above but compressed with gnu zip pine4.64.tar.gz - Same as above pine.tar.bz2 - Same as above but compressed with bzip2 pine4.64.tar.bz2 - Same as above pine.intro.txt - Standard short introduction to Pine pine-4.64-1.i386.rpm - RPM built on Red Hat Enterprise Server release 3 pine-4.64-1.src.rpm - Source RPM built on Red Hat Enterprise Server release 3 pine_4.64-1_i386.deb - Debian package built on Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 docs DIRECTORY: Pine external documentation. Supplements to the help information compiled into Pine and the Unix man page. The files in this directory are also available in WWW form at http://www.washington.edu/pine/. tech-notes.txt - Text version of Pine Technical notes, about 50 pages release-notes.txt - Release notes for the current version of Pine user-guide.txt - Based on Pine's online help (for version 3.94) FAQs.txt - Pointer to Pine FAQ in Pine Information Center QandA.txt - The Pine FAQ pc-pine.txt - Notes on PC Pine how2get.txt - Where to get Pine for different operating systems legal.txt - Pine Legal Notices chronology.txt - Release Chronology and Version Changes hist.cred.txt - Pine Project History and Credits Getting_Started.* - An introductory guide to using Pine for novice users, available in several formats. The guide for each version (3.90, 3.95, 3.96) is in its own subdirectory. The guide for Pine version 4 is available in the Pine Information Center, at: http://www.washington.edu/pine/tutorial.4/ pcpine DIRECTORY: The current PC-Pine distribution. See pcpine/README for details. old DIRECTORY: Old versions of the Pine package. pine-info DIRECTORY: Archives of discussion on the public pine-info list. Coverage is from 1993 to the present. Archives dating back to Jan. 1995, also updated daily and with a searchable full-text index, are available on the World Wide Web at the URL http://www.washington.edu/pine/pine-info/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- GETTING STARTED ON BUILDING UNIX PINE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Note: source code for PC-Pine is not currently available.) After downloading one of the compressed "tar" files (pine.tar.gz, _or_ pine.tar.bz2, _or_ pine.tar.Z) here are the steps to build Unix Pine (and the other related programs): Step 1: Uncompress the downloaded file: uncompress pine.tar.Z or gunzip pine.tar.gz or bunzip2 pine.tar.bz2 Step 2: Extract files from the "tar" archive: tar xf pine.tar Step 3: Change directory to the extracted pineX.XX directory, e.g. cd pine4.64 Step 4: Read the distribution's README file for detailed instructions: more README ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- LEGAL NOTICES ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --> All UW Software is copyrighted by the University of Washington --> Pine and Pico are trademarks of the University of Washington --> Use of the Pine-Info message archives for the compilation of email address lists for commercial purposes is prohibited (Chapter 42.17 RCW). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- END README ----------------------------------------------------------------------------