[lug] pine-file-append-pdf-what!?

[Rob Mohr]

Hola! BLUG,

I use pine.  Have used pine since 1995.  Works.  (First Linux install,
1995.)  

Recently my financial monthly report has been emailed to me as a *.pdf.
So I use pine and export-save into a file in /home/usr.  Not caring to
read the report just yet, I save several during the month.  Overwrite or
append?  I pick the append. And I back up the file in the home directory,
too.  It gets larger in file size. But on my first inspection via adobe
viewer, a problem.

I can only view the most recent statement page.  It does not show the
previous pages.  I can't blame pine because it does append. But is there a
toggle that needs to be thrown on the pdf side of things to bring up the
first & succeeding statement pages?  (And earlier in the week I had a
issue when a company send out a quote *.microsoft spreadsheet file
extension. And me just with a shell account access.  Guy did get it to me
.txt but some folks can't do that.  Human Resource Depts a prime example.)
Ask me ASCII; is good for me. And I LIKED gopher pages.  

My current work-a-round is to save each emailed statement as its own
file.pdf and *not* via pine append each statement into a cat file.  Info
back if I can can the pdf viewer to see the whole file, not just the last
appended emailed statement.

Bonus. Invester Business Daily (IBD) had a blurp about how the backoffice
trade clearing organization for NYSE & NASDAQ are and have switched over
to the IBM-Linux 390 setup.  "We ported over to linux in about 2-1/2 days"
if I remember the quote properly.  "We like open source and this will be a
cost effective solution for the smaller operations that could not afford 
the Sun package."  And I think of the funny looks I got in Gunbarrel in
July when I asked the SolidWorks (cad 3d modeling package) VP when they
plan to port over to Linux.  "We like our partnership with Microsoft." And
you can imagine how much this guy gets in salary.  Yuck.   
eof