On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Peter C. Wallace wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Wayne Talbot wrote:
> > >
> > > > Looking for DOS command-line e-mail client
> > > >
> > > > Have you tried pegasus mail?
> > >
> > > Is it command line?
> > >
> > > So far I've searched far and wide and pursued half a dozen well-meaning
> > > but erroneous suggestions for various packages and I just don't think such
> > > an application exists.
> >
> >
> > Sure it does,
> > PC pine works fine,
>
> > Even known to work with Lan Manager with the right protocol stack shims...
>
> Are earlier versions smaller than 1MB? That's how big the current version
> is. PINE has always been bloated, so I wouldn't expect an older version
> to a) have the functionality I seek and b) be able to fit in memory with
> the net drivers loaded and while another program is running (i.e. PINE is
> shelled out to).
Sure its smaller than 1M since it will fit in 640K along with whatever parts
of the LAN manager stack wont fit in high memory. As I recall its around 500K.
I used it for many a year...
I guess I didn't read all the intervening messages and it was not clear to me
what you wanted
Looks like what you are looking for is a DOS equivalent of the unix 'mail'
program. If security is not a big issue and the attached DOS file is on a
Samba server, you could just use one of the DOS REXEC clients to invoke the
unix mail program and send the file...
>
> THIS PROGRAM DOES NOT EXIST!
>
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Peter Wallace
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Received on Mon Aug 30 2004 - 21:13:13 BST