If I can, and some times a have to, use Pine by dial-in or telnet, why use PC-Pine?
The only real reason, besides a better (mouse supported) GUI, is that it makes easy to send/save attachments from/to your PC. Most attachments will be word processing, spreadsheets, etc, that run in the PC. It saves you uploading/downloading the attachments. Moreover, you can use your word processor and copy and paste to/from PC-Pine, of course, if you copy and paste, your text is automatically converted to ASCII, ignoring bold, font size, etc. Only attaching can preserve word processing formats. • How can I send attachments in PC-Pine? Open a Compose Message process. Write your regular message (or just a note saying you are sending the attachments). Select or type ^J and Pine will ask you for the name of a file. You do not need to know the file name. Just select or type ^T and you will be placed in a regular Windows file dialog for you to select the file! You can attach more than one file to a message. You can attach for example a word processor, an image and a spreadsheet file to the
