Subject: Pine for OS/2?

From: [email-masked] (Farzad FARID)
Date: 4 Aug 1994 14:43:25 GMT

Has Pine been ported to OS/2 2.x or is someone working on a port?
And is there a FAQ on Pine available? Thanks.
 Farzad

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From: Don Loflin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 1994 12:27:46 -0500 (CDT)

> And is there a FAQ on Pine available? Thanks.

As far as I know, no one has done a port yet.  I have been working with
Pine 3.89 but I'm having major problems with Pico & EMX/GCC's termcap
libraries (thus, I'm still working on Pico, haven't even starting porting
the rest of Pine itself yet).  I may switch to Borland and use the 
DOS-specific code, but then I have to actually be at my machine :-( 
instead of telnetting in (thank you IBM, for including a telnetd!). 

Pine 3.90 is supposed to use IMAP 3.4, which includes WINSOCK support and
other API (function params, etc) changes, so I'm inclined to wait for it
before porting the whole thing, given that it's due out "any day now" :-)
I'm continuing w/3.89 slowly though, I figure I will at least get used to
the code that way. 

I realize IBM TCP's socket interface has more in common w/BSD than
WINSOCK, but the Winsock code (other than winsock calls) is likely more
OS2 friendly than the BSD/Unix code, even using EMX/GCC.

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