Subject: Re: sco pico??

From: Nico van der Horn <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 06:28:55 +0100 (CEST)

On Sat, 30 Dec 1995 [email-masked] wrote:

> Nico van der Horn transmitted:
> #If PINE is installed on your system, PICO should be there also !
> #
> hi, and thank you for responding so quickly :)  
> pine is a menu choice, but there is no executable and i get an error 
> when i select it.
> pico also exists, but i get garbage lines and an error when i try
> to use it.

According to the doc's Pine has difficulty with some terminal types.

> i am hoping that they install a working version sometime
> soon, but in the meantime i use vi and elm.  vi isn't really all
> that bad, except when i send email it gets a bit cumbersome to enter
> the letter commands whenever i need to do something different.

And PICO has word-wrap, justify, simple block operations, that vi leaks.

> #Do you need a binary ?
> 
> if the binary is all it takes, then yes i do.  there are no libraries
> or supporting files that are needed?

Just this only executable file.

> i need to check what version of sco they run.  will this pine run on
> later versions than 3.2v4.2?

We run the same binary on all SCO versions including OpenServer 5.0 as 
well as versions without TCP/IP but then as a MUA only.

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