Pine and ssh

SuSE 71 (with latest updates) I use ssh to run commands on remotes systems and while this works great for my X apps, the pine app doesn't support this. When I run a command line ssh <system> pine it responds that you can not redirect output to a file. While that is not what I'm doing, I can not seem to find out how to tell it that I'm redirecting output to another terminal. Anyone give any insight into a possible solution? While were all on pine... anyone know of a way to change the default mail dir of ~/Mail to something else?