PMDF User's Guide
OpenVMS Edition

In the Pine resource file, any line starting with # is considered to be a comment line. Lines not beginning with # contain settings for configuration options using the format

option=value[,value,...]

All values are strings; quotes can be used around any value. If a value is absent, then the associated option is not set and a system-wide default setting, if there is one, will be used instead. For some options, only the values YES and NO are allowed.

The dollar sign, $, has a special meaning in the configuration file: it means that the word following it is an "environment variable", i.e., a DCL symbol or logical name, the value of which is then substituted at that point in the file. To specify $ in a value, you need to prefix it with a backslash; e.g.,

SYS\$LOGIN:SIGNATURE.TXT

A line beginning with a space or tab is considered to be a continuation of the previous line.