Re: Alpine

On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:27:39 -0700 (PDT), Straitsfan
<chrislandalusa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I tried using pine, but it didn't work on my mac. I found out about
its successor, Alpine, but when I tried to download it from the Apple
website, it wasn't there -- some kind of 404 error or something. I've
been to the UW site to try to download the latest version, but I'm not
sure what to do. Can anyone help me out? How do I download and
install Alpine?

If you have Xcode from the Apple MAC OS X DVD/CD installed you can try these
techniques to get and run alpine.

Open a web browser and paste:
ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/alpine/bin/alpine-bin.osx-10.5.Z
ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/alpine/bin/pico-bin.osx-10.5.Z
ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/alpine/bin/pilot-bin.osx-10.5.Z

If still get an error then try a regular FTP client like cyberduck
and go to the address:
ftp.cac.washington.edu
navigate to the folder/directory

/alpine/bin

and download:

alpine-bin.osx-10.5.Z
pico-bin.osx-10.5.Z
pilot-bin.osx-10.5.Z

Open the terminal and cd to the folder you downloaded the files
and paste or type:
uncompress alpine-bin.osx-10.5.Z
uncompress pico-bin.osx-10.5.Z
uncompress pilot-bin.osx-10.5.Z

(Note: I don't know if stuff it expander will handled compressed Z files, but
you can try it to see if it works. )

then type:

../alpine-bin.osx-10.5
to see if it will work in your system.
If it will work then you can place the three files
in /usr/local/bin with
sudo cp alpine-bin.osx-10.5 /usr/local/bin/alpine
sudo cp pico-bin.osx-10.5 /usr/local/bin/pico
sudo cp pilot-bin.osx-10.5 /usr/local/bin/pilot

then type
alpine
to run and set up alpine


If you have wget installed then try this script:

#!/bin/bash
echo "Lets get the programs"

wget ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/alpine/bin/alpine-bin.osx-10.5.Z
wget ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/alpine/bin/pico-bin.osx-10.5.Z
wget ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/alpine/bin/pilot-bin.osx-10.5.Z

echo "now we will uncompress them"

uncompress alpine-bin.osx-10.5.Z
uncompress pico-bin.osx-10.5.Z
uncompress pilot-bin.osx-10.5.Z

echo "now we will copy and rename the files to a directory"

sudo cp alpine-bin.osx-10.5 /usr/local/bin/alpine
sudo cp pico-bin.osx-10.5 /usr/local/bin/pico
sudo cp pilot-bin.osx-10.5 /usr/local/bin/pilot
exit
#end of script
--
Best Regards, Keith
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My valid email is kilowattradio at gmail.com
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