On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 06:51:34 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
Nope, sorry. That's beyond me, and no one on c.m.p suggested it. I suspect you're overestimating me vastly.
Sorry... Generally people get very upset when you underestimate them.
Yes, I know; so I try to be up front about my ignorance.
If you did, and there is a passfile argument, then at least you know that passfile support was compiled in.
I just did it and got :
[btth@localhost ~]$ pine -h | grep -i passfile -passfile <fully_qualified_filename> Set the password file to something other -nowrite_passfile Read from a passfile if there is one, but never offer to write a password to the passfile [btth@localhost ~]$
That's also beyond me -- especially inasmuch as there is no "than" correlated with the "other" -- nor do I get the point of the "never"
FWIW, the "-h" parameter generally means "help". Should you want to read the entire help just type "pine -h".
Hmmm ... The "than" that I missed shows now. Fwiw, there's quite a bit in there that I don't get, but more that I know, and a few things that may be ones I've been looking for; very interesting, thanks -- I didn't realize the -h worked for pine. (I had tried man pine and info pine.)
Next, if the maintainer was nice, you should try going into pine's help section and seeing if the default passfile is documented.
The maintainer of livna was even nicer and has already replied to you.
Yes, that began as a reply direct to me, which he then apparently decided also to post here -- and I'm glad, because I wasn't sure if it were OT.
The only helps I know for pine are either vast beyond imagining, or else tied to specific items in M > S > C ; so I don't know where nor how you mean me to look.
If not, then you should find the pine src file in the given repository and look in the spec file. It is probably listed there.
What's an src file? I don't hope ever to be competent with source code, if it has something to do with that -- nor does pine, afaik, require me to be.
To use pine, no. To learn its hidden secrets, maybe yes.
All right, where do I find an explanation of an src file? I tried
[btth@localhost ~]$ whereis pine.spec pine: /usr/bin/pine /etc/pine.conf /usr/share/man/man1/pine.1.gz [btth@localhost ~]$
and then looked through those with various commands. Watched for src, too, and didn't see it, either.
FWIW, when you ask questions for which there is no ready answer it may require one of two things. Either someone would have to know the answer and tell you...or someone would have to dig for the answer. That "someone" could be you....or it could be someone kind person willing to do the digging for you.
Well, I suppose I should have detailed my flounderings, looking in man pine, .pinerc, pine.conf, google, etc.; I would have on a pine list, but didn't expect anyone here to be interested. (Is there an acronym for *on* topic?)
FYI, the answer was in the pine.spec file. While you are probably not interested in learning the gory details...never mind.
I can't seem to find any pine.spec -- not with whereis, not in man pine, and not with the GUI searcher in FC5.