Subject: Possible pine bug on Homer...

From: Corey Lawson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 17:18:17 -0700 (PDT)

User machine:
IBM PC (PS2/90, 8MB RAM, Win 3.1, Lan Workplace for DOS/WIN TCP/IP stack.
EWAN connection to Homer.)

User was using Pine, composing a pretty long message. She spell-checked
it.  Got kinda confused (I think), and ended up in the Pine Composer Help.

The weirdness was that the menu bar on the bottom of the pine window
somehow became a composite of the Help menu bar and Compose Message menu
bar, even though she was still in Pine Composer Help. Keys that worked
included 'O' (not normally available in the Pine Composer Help...), Spc,
-, ^n, ^p, etc.. Keys that didn't included 'e' (key not defined) to exit
help, ^C (Key not defined), and things like that...

It could have been from the user scrolling back the screen in Ewan, but
the weird thing was how 'o' worked, even though she was still reading (and
the title bar indicated that we were in) the Pine Composer Help...

Anyways... the ultimate fix was to close that connection, (pray) open a
new connection, and resume composing the postponed message. I guess it is
good to play miracle worker every once in awhile (the user isn't the
fastest typist in the world, and having to retype the message would have
caused only a slight amount of grief...).

 -Corey Lawson
 UWBothell Computer Facilities
 [email-masked]