Subject: Problems running PC-PINE 3.89 on AST Premium 386/25 with 3C509

From: Donald Bird <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 17:27:11 PST

We are having problems installing PINE 3.89 on an AST Premium 386/25 with
a 3COM 3C509TP network interface and DOS 6.2. We have successfully run
the same version of PINE on other PCs e.g. Compaq Deskpro 486/33i with 
3C509TP and generic 386/33 with 3C507TP, etc. 

On the AST we have tried both packet drivers (Crynwr 3C509.COM ver. 10.1)
and NDIS driver (ELNK3.DOS ver. 2.0 dated 11/25/92 from LAN Manager 2.2)
with an NDIS to packet interface (DIS_PKT.GUP ver. 1.31 dated 1/25/93). In
both of these scenarios the packet driver or the NDIS/packet combination
seem to load OK but PINE hangs displaying the [Opening "INBOX" ...]
message. We are using the same configuration files that work on the Compaq
and trying them on the AST without success. During testing we monitored
the network traffic using LAN Watch and didn't see any packets transmitted
by the PC. Using a small TSR to monitor the PCs activity it seemed to hang
in a tight loop while executing code in low memory in the DOS code or in
the SYSTEM BIOS area. 

Have you run across this problem before on this type of PC and do you 
know of a solution? We would like to continue using public domain 
software if possible.

Thank you for any suggestions you might have to solve this problem. 

Don Bird
R. W. Beck
(206)727-4674
[email-masked]

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 21:46:45 -0800 (PST)

Don,

Does telnet work OK on the same machine?  Can you telnet to port 143 on 
the IMAP server?  

Thanks for the report!

--DLM

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