Pine is a user-agent for reading, sending, and managing
electronic messages. It was originally developed at the
University of Washington with novice users in mind, but can be
tailored to accommodate the needs of more experienced users. The
UNIX, DOS, and Windows versions are maintained by the Computing &
Communications group at the University of Washington and can be
obtained from ftp.cac.washington.edu via anonymous FTP. A mailing
list for Pine is maintained as pine-info@cac.washington.edu;
however, bugs found in the PMDF version of Pine should be
reported to support@process.com.
Pine has a full-screen interface which uses one-character
mnemonic commands and control sequences for its command input.
You do not have to hit the RETURN or ENTER key to finish a
command. A command menu is always present at the bottom of the
screen, and help is only one keystroke away. It is intended that
Pine can be learned by exploration and the browsing of extensive,
context-sensitive on-line help provided within Pine, but some
basic concepts to get a new user started are discussed below.
Additional Information:
explode
extract