Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 23:52:15 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@revelstone.jvm.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newer pine? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970221235153.481A-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970221233630.421J-100000@localhost>
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On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Cliff Addy wrote: > > > I was very disappointed to see that the 2.1.6 cd did not have a port of > > the latest pine. We have a constant problem with the current port when > > the user loses their connection, the process runs wild, eating 80% of the > > cpu time. > > > > Supposedly this is a known bug that is fixed in the latest pine. I tried > > compiling the source, but there is no direct support of fbsd and I could > > not get it working. > > > > Will the newer version be ported soon? Barring that, does anyone know > > what needs to be hacked to get a good compile on the newer code? > > Pine 3.95 fixes many of the nasty bugs in 3.91, plus it's had a good 2x or > 3x speed increase and now you have progress bars and 'I'm working' type > messages so you know that your telnet connection hasn't gone on vacation, > it's just Pine working in the background. > > 3.95 will compile file if you specify the 'netbsd' target. The mouse > stuff will complain but it doesn't work too well anyway -- you would be > the better to disable it. This box is actually using 3.94 without any > major problems, and our master mail server is on 3.95 with likewise, no > probs to report. Do you know if it shipped with 2.1.7? > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
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