PINE, Networking, PINE NetNews and Mail Client

                   P I N E   M A I L E R   F O R   V M S
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                        University of Washington

                         Version 3.91-2 for VMS
                              Beta Release

                              Andy Harper
                          Kings College London


PINE is a screen based mail and news program. Originally written for unix
systems, by the University of Washington, it has been ported to a number of
others. This implementation is for the Digital Equipment Corporation's OpenVMS
operating system. PINE on VMS uses the VMS callable routines for most mail
related functions.

Yehavi Bourvine ported version 3.91 of the PINE code and the IMAPD server to
VMS. His last release was known as 3.91 Beta 5. However, this port was
incomplete. I have progressed the port to a workable state and upgraded the
code since then; This note summarizes the changes. My version starts at 3.91
Beta 6.

Note - the changes here have been tested ONLY with the NETLIB and MULTINET
TCP/IP stacks. NETLIB support provides an alternative for users of other stacks
(UCX, CMU, pathway etc.) If anyone wishes to contribute the relevant mods to
make direct support for these stacks work properly, please let me know. I'll
try to integrate them as and when I can. I only update this in my limited spare
time or as needed for our local users.

The code will compile with GNU C 2.7.1, VAX C 3.2, DEC C 5.5 and DECC 5.3 and
works on both VAX and ALPHA with NETLIB 2.x and/or Multinet 3.5B.


Andy Harper
Kings College London                                              22 Oct 1997
E-Mail: A.Harper@kcl.ac.uk