Pine users... do you exist? lol Usenet/Mail probs & minor audio rant

[Ilwrath]

I believe the Amiga version of Pine requires a complete ixemul setup.  Which ixemul, itself, is an enigma, wrapped in a mystery, wrapped in a giant steaming turd.

And, really, the better question might be why you'd want Pine on an Amiga?  Back 15 years ago or so I used to use it through a unix (Solaris, I think?) terminal I dialed into at my school.  It almost, sorta, worked for plain text messages.  That is about the best I can say for it.  I can't imagine wanting to use it today.  I don't think it can even comprehend a multi-part MIME message.  I seem to remember it just displays the text/plain portion and then presents you with a giant block of uuencoded crap at the end.

[Ilwrath]

ROTFLMAO! I never used Pine before, so thought I may have been "missing out".

Naw...  I think you're probably better off with any of the more modern Amiga email or news programs.  Pine is totally text/terminal based.  It's one strength is that it can run through a standard VT-100 terminal.  (So WAY back in the day, you could simply use JR-Comm to dial directly in to a computer running a dial-in shell.  Then, open Pine on that remote computer, and you could read your internet e-mail, and not need TCP/IP or whatnot on your end computer.  This was helpful like 17-20 years ago when I didn't have a hard drive on my Amiga, nor the skill to run TCP/IP on it.  :lol:)

I do have those ixemul files though. But, it still doesn't work. No biggy. NewsRog looks promising, but the evaluation version is severely crippled.

Yeah, I had an ixemul setup, too.  It seems like I remember finding though SnoopDos that Pine was barfing on something related to ixemul, though.  I always suspected my ixemul setup wasn't so good.  Really, I only got about 50% of the ixemul programs I tried to actually work.  And, of those, only a few worked reliably enough to be useful.