Subject: Background sending, Pine3.94, Solaris 2.5

From: [email-masked] (Soren Larsen)
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 10:39:39 GMT

>From comparing the files pine/osdep/os-{gso,sol}.h it appears that sending
messages in the background can be enabled if Pine was compiled with Sun's
own C compiler, but not if gcc was used.  How come?

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Soren Larsen                      Email: [email-masked]
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From: Michael Seibel <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 11:27:08 -0700 (PDT)

On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Soren Larsen wrote:

> From comparing the files pine/osdep/os-{gso,sol}.h it appears that
> sending messages in the background can be enabled if Pine was compiled
> with Sun's own C compiler, but not if gcc was used.  How come? 

Oversight, I'm afraid!  For this particular port, simply uncommenting the
"BACKGROUND_POST" definition should be all that is required to enable this
feature.

Michael Seibel
Networks and Distributed Computing
University of Washington, Seattle