Subject: PC-NFS - Host not found error!

From: "Himanshu Gohel (DMIP)" <[email-masked]>
Date: 9 Mar 1995 22:03:20 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to run PC-Pine 3.91 (same with 3.90) on a PC with PC-NFS v5.0
(have also tried v4.0a), and am having problems opening the INBOX on the
unix host.

But it's strange: the first time I configure the pc-pine program, everything
works fine!  It will ask me for a inbox path & I type in:

{myhost}INBOX

and pc-pine goes on to open it and shows me my mail.  The NEXT time I try
to run pc-pine it complains about not finding that host!  (This time it has
read the inbox path from the file PINERC):

Host not found: myhost

So I deleted the PINERC file from the configuration file and started the
process again, but I get the same result!  Works the first time, but not
after that.

I've gone through the Pine news archives for the last three months, and have
noticed other people having the same problem, but no solutions.  Seems like if
there is a PC-NFS version of PC-PINE, someone must have got it working...please
share your solutions!  Thanks!

Himanshu Gohel, [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (David Dumaresq)
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 16:23:40 +0800

> (have also tried v4.0a), and am having problems opening the INBOX on the

I've had this exact problem and posted a tips message on solving it. You may
not have found it because I refered to it as Unknown Host rather than Host 
not found. Sorry. Anyway see below for my solution and let me know if you 
still have problems. 

David.
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>From david Mon Mar  6 15:27:18 1995
To: [email-masked]
Subject: Tips: Windows PC-Pine hangs, and Unknown Host
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Thought I'd pass on a couple solution that I encountered while installing
PC-Pine under windows and with PCNFS:

Running under DOS with PCNFS: 
Problem: Unknown Host

I have managed to get PC-Pine for PCNFS to run under DOS, it was unable
to locate the remote host but I freed up some main memory - it now has 
5603k and it works fine (thanks to Clinton Bittel). 

Running under Windows with winsock.dll:
Problem: Hangs opening INBOX

Unfortunately, the Windows winsock version will not run. It hangs while
trying to open INBOX.

I upgraded the winsock.dll to Dec. 25, 1993  24576B and it no longer hangs.

You may want to try a more recent version, but I've got to worry about
whether it will work with my sqllink drivers.

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Cheers,
David.
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David Dumaresq                                	| email: [email-masked]
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Kwantlen College, Lower Mainland BC, Canada    	| fax:   (604) 599-2068

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