
			PICO Source Code (Jan 1992)

This directory contains source code to build the Pine Mail System 
composer and it's stand-alone version pico (short for PIne COmposer).
To build, just use make -f with the Makefile specific to your system.

This source was derived, in very large part, from MicroEmacs version 3.6, 
and still contains much of that source, although just about every function 
was changed in some way or another.  Since pico is intended to be very 
simple and easy to use, many of the functions from MicroEmacs have been 
removed, though remnants remain.

The original MicroEmacs had functions neatly separated into modules that
corresponded to the type of function.  Some of this neatness still remains, 
but to minimize OS related #ifdef's we've further separated out those 
functions and collected them into os_xxx.[ch].  It's hoped this will be an
aid in porting.  Of course, due to the great job done by everyone thats 
contributed to MicroEmacs, this is pretty much done for pico.  We've only
included source here to the systems we've tested, though.

A general discussion of pine and pico, and how/why they're built is
available in ../doc/tech-notes.  Pico's man page gives a brief overview 
of it's features.

-mikes@cac.washington.edu
