The pine2mutt Handbook Jan Schaumann jschauma@netmeister.org Version 0.1 , Th November 09 18:19:15 EST 2000 This information is also available at http://www.netmeister.org/apps/pine2mutt/ This Handbook describes pine2mutt Version 0.1 1. Introduction 2. Installation 2.1 How to obtain pine2mutt 2.2 Requirements 2.3 Compilation and installation 3. Usage 4. Copyright 5. Misc ------------------------------------------------------- 1. Introduction pine2mutt is a simple perl-script interesting to people who switch from using pine to mutt. Currently, pine2mutt only converts pines addressbook into a mutt-compatible alias-file, but it might facilitate other necessary conversion in the future. ------------------------------------------------------- 2. Installation 2.1 How to obtain pine2mutt pine2mutt 0.1 can be obtained from: http://www.netmeister.org/apps/pine2mutt-0.1.tar.gz http://guinness.cs.stevens-tech.edu/~jschauma/pine2mutt-0.4.2.tar.gz http://www.netmeister.org/apps/pine2mutt-0.1-1mdk.i386.rpm http://www.netmeister.org/apps/pine2mutt-0.1-1mdk.src.rpm View CHANGES for (d'uh) changes. 2.2 Requirements In order to successfully use pine2mutt, you need the following programs and libraries which are available on most platforms as distribution packages and thereby can be installed easily. Required: Perl 5.x, available at http://www.perl.com 2.3 Compilation and installation In order to install pine2mutt on your system, type the following in the the directory to which you downloaded the pine2mutt distribution: % tar zxvf pine2mutt-0.1.tar.gz % cd pine2mutt-0.1 % su % make install This will install pine2mutt in /usr/local/bin/ and copy the man-page for pine2mutt into /usr/local/man/man1/. If perl does not live in /usr/bin/perl, please edit the file "pine2mutt" in the base-directory of the distribution and change the first line appropriately. Should you run into problems please report them to the the author at jschauma@netmeister.org ------------------------------------------------------- 3. Usage pine2mutt is fairly uncomplicated: simply run % pine2mutt to convert your ~/.addressbook into ~/.aliases. pine2mutt will also add the line source ~/.aliases to your ~/.muttrc (if neccessary). Alternatively, you can specify the input and outputfiles on the command-line. See % pine2mutt -h or % man pine2mutt for details. If you run into any problems, if you encounter bugs, or if you have any other comments on this program,please don't hesitate to email me. ------------------------------------------------------- 4. Copyright pine2mutt Copyright 2000 Jan Schaumann, jschauma@netmeister.org This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. ------------------------------------------------------- 5. Misc Please take the time to visit these websites: http://www.aclu.org http://www.amnesty.org http://www.worldwildlife.org http://www.ncadp.org Take the time to think about it. -------------------------------------------------------