In article <[log in to unmask]>, "Clayton L. Hines" <[log in to unmask]> w
rites:
> James Taylor wrote:
>
>> Will the pico editor be available on MiaVX1? It apears it is now
>> being used as the environment for composing letters in the mail
>> program PINE (PINE is an experimental program on MiaVX1, though.)
>
> If you check pine's home, http://www.washington.edu/pine/ , you'll find
> that Pine and Pico are developed and distributed together.  You can find
> the source for the latest version (3.95) for a whole slew of operating
> systems (VMS being one of the ones that aren't completely ported) at
> ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu:/pine/ .  I'm not sure if Pico is part of
> what's not completely ported to VMS -- the VMS readme's don't mention it.
>
> It might be something to consider, since Pico is nearly insultingly easy
> to use, and many of our users might prefer it to EVE.
>
> The thing is, MCIS has to have the time and disk space to install it, and
> the time to maintain and support it.  And Kent is a very, very busy man.
 
Actually, we've had PICO on the system for quite a while.  A few people
have been given access to it, but I haven't had much time to work with it
(I gave Clayton access to it and he immediately found bugs in it).  If we
can get a stable version of it, we may be able to release it for the
general public to use.  Don't hold your breath, though.
 
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                                     Kent Covert, Software Coordinator
                                     Miami Computing and Information Services
                                     Miami University, Oxford, OH
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