Setup and Configuration Screens

Pine gives you a whole section, "Setup" from the main menu, which takes care of all your configuration and setup needs.

Simple Setup Options

Some of the choices are simply explained:

NewPassword (N) is a feature designed to let Unix Pine users change their password on the system. You will have to type in the old password and confirm the new one.
Update (U) is a feature designed for PC-Pine users. It connects you to the PC-Pine update server which holds a copy of the current version of PC-Pine. With the update feature, you can check to make sure your version of PC-Pine is the most current and (if it is not) download the new version.

Some or all of the above options may be disabled on your system if they are inapplicable in your environment or cannot be implemented on your system.

Printer Configuration

Unix Pine users will find a "printer" configuration choice gives you an interface to control the way documents should be printed. You can choose to print:

On an attached-to-ansi printer
With the generic system print command (set by your system manager)
With a special command (set by you)

Pine will remember your special print command and also your printer selection from session to session. These values are written to your personal pine configuration file.

Configuration Menu

The configuration options menu (Main/Setup/Config) is the way in which Pine lets you determine how you want it to behave. The interactive interface looks like this:

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|  PINE 3.90   CONFIGURATION MENU             Folder: INBOX   4 Messages  | 
|                                                                         |
| personal-name              = John Smith                                 |
| user-domain                = art.nowhere.edu                            |
| smtp-server                = picasso.art.nowhere.edu                    |
| nntp-server                = news.nowhere.edu                           |
| inbox-path                 = {wharhol.art.nowhere.edu}INBOX             |
| folder-collections         = Saved-Email {wharhol.art}mail/[]           |
|                              exhibit exhibit-email/[]                   |
| news-collections           = <No Value Set>                             |
| default-fcc                = <No Value Set: using "sent-mail">          |
| postponed-folder           = <No Value Set: using "postponed-msgs">     |
| read-message-folder        = <No Value Set>                             |
| signature-file             = <No Value Set: using ".signature">         |
| global-address-book        = <No Value Set>                             |
| address-book               = <No Value Set>                             |
| feature-list               =                                            |
|            Set        Feature Name                                      |
|            ---   ----------------------                                 |
|            [X]  enable-full-header-cmd                                  |
|            [X]  enable-unix-pipe-cmd                                    |
|                                                                         |
| ? Help   E Exit Config  P Prev    - PrevPage    A Add Value             |
|          C [Change Val] N Next  Spc NextPage    D Delete Val  W WhereIs |
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The configuration interface allows you to modify personal setting without leaving Pine. Some changes made this way will only take effect after closing and then restarting Pine. The sample screen image above only shows you the first page. In fact, there are over 70 different options you can set and the configuration interface spills onto multiple pages.

The keys A, D, C, and X (Add, Delete, Change, and Set/Unset) are those you use to change your configuration.