Title: How do I use hierarchical folders in Pine 4?
Question:
I understand that you can use hierarchical folders in Pine but how is this
actually done?
Answer:
Pine supports hierarchical folders, that is, folders within folders. Lets
say that you teach a number of classes, such as EE301, EE322, and EE402,
and suppose you have email associated with each of these classes that
you would like to group into different categories, such as:
o Exams
o Administration
o Student correspondence
o Research information
so you would like your folders to look like this:
...
EE301
Exams
Administration
Student_correspondence
Research_information
EE322
Exams
Administration
Student_correspondence
Research_information
EE402
Exams
Administration
Student_correspondence
Research_information
...
You can do this as follows:
In the "local folders in mail/" menu, on one line:
(a) Type "A" (Add)
then type EE301
then press ^X (Create Directory)
then press or
This creates a directory named EE310/. You do the same for
directories EE322 and EE402
(b) Then move to that directory (EE301/) and, on one line:
Type "A" (Add)
then type Exams
then press
This creates the folder "Exams" in the directory EE301
(c) To add the other 3 folders to EE301/ you do the same:
Type "A"
then type Administration
then press
and so on, for "Student_correspondence" and "Research_Information"
(d) Then press "<" to get back to the main "Local folders in mail/"
directory in Pine
To save messages in these sub folders, you simply press "S" followed
by the "directory/folder" name followed by . For example,
to place a messages into "Exams" inside "EE322/" you type:
"S" followed by "EE322/Exams" followed by