From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 17 14:14:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6922B37B8D9 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 14:14:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 84582 invoked from network); 17 May 2000 21:13:52 -0000 Received: from theory7.physics.iisc.ernet.in (qmailr@144.16.71.127) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 17 May 2000 21:13:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 16672 invoked by uid 211); 17 May 2000 21:13:50 -0000 Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 02:43:50 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Ben Smithurst Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: better than pine? Message-ID: <20000518024350.F16497@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: Ben Smithurst , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200005171727.KAA09714@cortex.NSMA.Arizona.EDU> <20000517202936.H21557@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000517202936.H21557@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk on Wed, May 17, 2000 at 08:29:36PM +0100 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.14 alpha X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben Smithurst said on May 17, 2000 at 20:29:36: > On the subject of Pine, can someone explain this? > > ben@strontium:~$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/{mutt,slrn,pine} > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 367592 7 Nov 1999 /usr/local/bin/mutt* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2374520 5 Jun 1999 /usr/local/bin/pine* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 171532 2 Jan 21:20 /usr/local/bin/slrn* > > Pine is over four times bigger than my mail client and news client put > together. Why?? From what I've seen, Pine is a featureless pile of > junk. It doesn't even do colours or threading. How on earth is Pine > over 2MB?? Is it entering the "most bloated communications program" > competition alongside Outlook Express or something? Well it does have a crude HTML parser, a built-in editor, and a mechanism to directly send mail to a server via SMTP. And it's very newbie-friendly. Also I think all the help pages are built into the executable, rather than stored separately on the disk; but that can't account for a 2 MB difference, it's true. On that subject, why is lynx so much bloated than w3m? Apart from slightly better cookie handling, what does it do that w3m doesn't? And w3m does a lot of other things like tables and frames. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message