Subject: Pine 3.89 on RS/6000-AIX-3.2 sometimes locks up in Compose mode

From: "Steven D. Majewski" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 1994 15:52:42 -0500 (EST)

I have switched my users here over to pine 3.89, using the precompiled
version from ftp.cac.washington.edu. ( I'm running Pico 2.3 - also 
precompiled. I don't remember if that is still the old version, or if
that is the latest. ) 

Some people have been reporting that Pine locks up on them when they 
have entered Compose Mode. They are unable to enter any text or cancel
with Control-C. 

I was able to reproduce ONE problem: 
  *IF* there was an improper exit from Pine while composing a message,
  it appears to want to INSIST that you continue a postponed message. 
  If I said "YES" , I was able to again postpone the message, and 
  continue. If I said "No", It entered compose mode and froze. 

After I had instructed one person on the way around this, I was called
in on another case of freezing in compose mode, where it had nothing
to do with a deferred or interrupted message. 

( I tried starting with "pine -z" , and was also unable to suspend the
  program with Control-Z. )

The first case, I can reproduce from xterm session or nsca telnet session
( and probably any other connection. ) The second case I have only seen
once (i.e. one REPORT, I was able to induce the problem repeatedly, 
and finally told them to use pine.old ) from a Macintosh NCSA Telnet 
emulating vt100. 

Has anyone else seen this problem? 

( I've been searching back thru the archive, as I remembered quite a 
  number of RS6000/AIX problems, but I haven't yet found this one. ) 

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From: "Adopt-A-Highway:Adopt-A-Road" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 1994 16:59:25 -0500 (EST)

> have entered Compose Mode. They are unable to enter any text or cancel

I do have the problem of locking up when I'm using PINE on the
RS/6000 AIX system... however, I don't even get as far as getting
into compose mode... My system (PINE) would lock up as I enter the
Menu screen. ... I would examine the debug file and it wouldn't even
complete the debug... it goes half way into the debug ... then
nothing.

I would then have to kill the process from another shell.

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From: Joshua Hosseinoff <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 1994 22:45:20 -0500 (EST)

I had this problem for a while with version 3.87 on our RS/6k AIX 3.2, 
and i solved it by using termcaps instead of curses.  For some unknown 
reason, both the curses and extended curses libraries would lock up the 
computer if the user would go directly into compose.  If the user would 
first go into the mail index and then compose it would work for that one 
time, but the very next compose would lock up.
On some terminals the pine would just lock up.  On others it would just 
send lots of garbage.  A check of stty showed that pine was changing the 
baud rate down to 50 or 110 bps!
BTW, Aix 3.2 has a woefully inadequate termcaps file, so I searched 
Archie for the file termcap.src and got a much more complete one from 
somewhere else.

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Josh Hosseinoff               [email-masked]

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 09:52:40 -0800 (PST)

Sigh...  We changed from libtermcap to libcurses due to complaints about the
inadequate termcap file.  Now it looks like libcurses is causing problems at
some sites :(  Unfortunately, alot of the problems that are reported on 
AIX 3.2 do not show up on our AIX 3.2 machines...  Any suggestions or 
insights from the AIX gurus out there would be appreciated!

--DLM

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