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PINE is a way of checking your e-mail using the "command line" rather than a web browser. Unless you are a *nix nerd (who and thus already knows know the intricacies of PINE, and is are probably running the latest nightly build of Alpine on his your MINIX box), it is utterly pointless. This article exists merely as an anachronistic reference to bygone days.

The last class to use PINE more than the web-based IMP [[Email#Webmail|webmail]] was the [[Special:Category:Class_of_2004|Class of 2004]]. Why it took otherwise intelligent Williams students until then to realize that other forms of retrieving e-mail are vastly superior in both functionality and ease of use is a mystery.

When ssh'ing into the unix servers using [http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ PuTTyPuTTY], when you copy something in your normal windows program (firefox, word, etc.) just right click in putty to paste it in. Also, you can copy and paste lines in PINE by cutting with ctrl-K, and then "uncutting" with ctrl-U.