From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 17 14: 7:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.campbell-mithun.com (Mercury.campbell-mithun.com [192.159.32.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCB1E37B8BF for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 14:07:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swb@grasslake.net) Received: from accord.grasslake.net (honda.grasslake.net [192.168.1.1]) by mercury.campbell-mithun.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA25401; Wed, 17 May 2000 16:06:38 -0500 Received: from marlowe (Marlowe.campbell-mithun.com [192.159.32.184]) by accord.grasslake.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA23451; Wed, 17 May 2000 16:05:41 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from swb@grasslake.net) Message-ID: <002c01bfc043$ff4a8980$b8209fc0@marlowe> From: "Shawn Barnhart" To: "Ben Smithurst" , References: <200005171727.KAA09714@cortex.NSMA.Arizona.EDU> <20000517202936.H21557@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: better than pine? Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 16:08:06 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Smithurst" | 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? | | Being a Pine user and not a user of the other two, do they include a built-in editor of any value? An IMAP client? That warm, user-friendly interface that reminds you of your first UNIX account during the heady days at University, that girl with the soft, brown hair, er, nevermind. (Although even pico+mutt+slrn < pine). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message