Usage: build may be one of the following: ult Works on DECStations with Ultrix 4.1 or 4.2 nxt Works on NeXT 68030's and 68040's running Next Mach 2.0 sun Works on SPARCs running SunOS 4.1 ptx Works on Sequent Symmetry running Dynix/PTX a32 Works on IBM RS/6000 running AIX 3.2 ... Others are available, see doc/pine-ports clean Clean up object files and such. Also, a good way to rebuild Pine/Pico from scratch. See the document doc/pine-ports for a list of other platforms that Pine has been ported to and for details about these and other ports. are generally not needed. They are flags (anything beginning with -) and are passed to make. "-n" is probably the most useful, as it tells make to just print out what it is going to do and not actually do it. To build Pine and Pico the command "build xxx" should work where xxx is one of the targets. For example "build ult" to build Pine for Ultrix. The executables built by this are: pine The Pine mailer. Once compiled this should work just fine on your system with no other files than this binary, and no modifications to your system. Optionally you may create two configuration files, /usr/local/lib/pine.conf and /usr/local/lib/pine.info. See the documentation for details. pico The standalone editor similar to the Pine message composer. This is a very simple straight forward text editor. imapd The IMAP daemon. If you want to run Pine in client/server mode, this is the daemon to run on the server. Installing this requires system privileges and modifications to /etc/services. See doc/tech-notes for more details. mtest The test IMAP client, an absolutely minimal mail client, useful for debugging. In general you should be able to just copy the Pine and Pico binaries to the place you keep your other local binaries. /usr/local/bin is a likely place.