From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from TekRD.grg.afb.net(w088.z208036108.was-dc.dsl.cnc.net[208.36.108.88]) (3169 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:02:24 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from localhost (janina@localhost) by TekRD.grg.afb.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA01656 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:03:25 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: TekRD.grg.afb.net: janina owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:03:25 -0500 (EST) From: Janina Sajka X-Sender: To: Subject: Re: Rolling My Own In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: Hi, Geoff: I'll check freshmeat re bell replacements. RE Pine and using the precompiled binaries--they may, in fact, work. But, I'm leary particularly of rpms that aren't specifically Redhat, though using the -iv argument usually keeps nastiness from happening. Main reason, though, is that I want to increase my efficiency in handling mail. If I stay weith Pine, and it is the one I know best, the first step, but only the first step for me, is to change the order of summary information presented in Pine's index screen. I notice that I often judge messages by their subject--e.g., I tend not to join read threads about video programming on my linux lists. So, my first step is to hear this data sooner. My next step is to give myself a hot key that will copy the subject into Pine's search, delete and expunge routines so that I can automate dumping the messages I don't care about. My third step, by the way, will be to hotkey the gravbbing of email addresses from mail and adding them to a procmail kill file. I get about a dozen garbage mail adds daily--sex, get rich quick, etc. Obviously, I can do these things by hand--but that's time consuming. And, in my mind, whenever I find myself repeatedly doing the same series of keyboard procedures, my mind always jumps to the though "automate this, and simplify your life." Janina On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Geoff Shang wrote: > Hi: > > I've seen a number of bell replacement schemes on freshmeat.net in the > console/sound section. Haven't messed with any of them though so I can't > comment on their effectiveness or lack thereof. > > And you have already been told about the pine indexing stuff so I won't > rehash that. Question though, why can't you use the precompiled linux > binaries on your laptop? Aren't they statically linked? > > Geoff. > > > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) janina@afb.net (202) 408-8175 http://www.afb.org/gov.html The invention of the printing press has been named the crowning achievement of the past millennium. Yet, electronic publishing will soon eclipse it. Read our White Paper: "Surpassing Gutenberg" available at: http://www.afb.org/ebook.html Are you developing software? Make it accessible to blind computer users. Read http://www.afb.org/technology/accessapp.html to learn how.