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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?
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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."