Word: pinings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When a message is interrupted in pine, often the program dumps whatever you are writing into a file called dead.letter and puts this in your home directory. All you have to do is open this file, get the goods and be on your merry e-mail-addicted, information overloaded, hyperstressed...
...ever "lost" an e-mail in pine, this column...
...ideal case, you would login again and start pine. Then, at the bottom of the screen, the following message would appear: "Use compose command to continue interrupted message." You just press "c" and a rift in space-time places you back in the middle of your message. Ain't technology grand...
...Assuming pine does not automatically retrieve the interrupted message, you want to edit pine and at the prompt type the command "Is", which gives you a listing of the files in your home directory. The more useful version of the command is "Is-1l more". Don't worry about how nasty this looks; just do it. It will list the files and their dates and other information...
...very likely event that you do find the message you are looking for, your last task is to get it back into pine and finish composing...