From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 17 13:47:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA0FA37BCEE for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 13:47:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12s9Vg-0008K6-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 17 May 2000 20:29:36 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12s9Vg-000C2i-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 17 May 2000 20:29:36 +0100 Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 20:29:36 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: better than pine? Message-ID: <20000517202936.H21557@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <200005171727.KAA09714@cortex.NSMA.Arizona.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200005171727.KAA09714@cortex.NSMA.Arizona.EDU> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? (yes, they're all dynamically linked & stripped, I'm not being unfair.) -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message