Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 20:29:36 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: better than pine? Message-ID: <20000517202936.H21557@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200005171727.KAA09714@cortex.NSMA.Arizona.EDU> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005162201530.75114-100000@home.offwhite.net> <200005171727.KAA09714@cortex.NSMA.Arizona.EDU>
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Doug Wellington wrote:
> If you want to stick to a monolithic mail reader like pine, you might
> consider moving to mutt...
On the subject of Pine, can someone explain this?
ben@strontium:~$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/{mutt,slrn,pine}
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 367592 7 Nov 1999 /usr/local/bin/mutt*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2374520 5 Jun 1999 /usr/local/bin/pine*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 171532 2 Jan 21:20 /usr/local/bin/slrn*
Pine is over four times bigger than my mail client and news client put
together. Why?? From what I've seen, Pine is a featureless pile of
junk. It doesn't even do colours or threading. How on earth is Pine
over 2MB?? Is it entering the "most bloated communications program"
competition alongside Outlook Express or something?
</rant>
(yes, they're all dynamically linked & stripped, I'm not being unfair.)
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Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D
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