Subject: Sign-on message

From: John Tessner <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 15:14:46 -0500 (CDT)

I have been getting a message which flashes for a second or two as I sign
on to PINE.

[Bad initial keystroke "<no value set>" (no comma set?)

Does anyone know what this means?  I asked our computer personnel here and
got no explanation.  Thanks.

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From: [email-masked] (Ramanuj Basu)
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 00:13:12 GMT

Sounds to me like you have an invalid entry in your Pine configuration.
From the Main Menu, hit S then C to configure Pine, then find the line that
starts with "initial-keystroke-list."  Hit D to delete the current value, 
then E to exit configuration and Y to save changes.

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 19:51:11 -0400

> got no explanation.  Thanks.

    I ran into that when I was trying to set up initial keystroke
sequences on my terminal communications program's "hot keys."  I never
could figure out what Pine was bellyaching about.  Meaningless, vague,
ambiguous, useless, or unhelpful error messages are the bane of
computers.  Pine Team?  The ball's in your court.

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 08:20:54 -0400

{posted and mailed}

On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Harry Slaughter wrote:

> In setup/configuration, see what' set under "initial-key-stroke". I put an
> "i" in there to open up my inbox upon opening pine. If you delete anything
> that's set under that, you shouldn't get that error message.
> 
> On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Paul O Bartlett wrote: [omitted]

    Thanks for responding.  However, I was trying to do something a
little more exotic than just just open my inbox, which I can already 
do with an initial keystroke sequence on the command line (invoked with
a "hot key").  I deliberately avoid putting initial keystroke sequences
in my configuration simply because sometimes I want to start Pine with
different parameters at different times.  That's why I put the
different sequences for starting Pine on hot keys, and it was in trying
to develop the "exotic" startups that I encountered the cryptic and
unhelpful error message that the original poster did.

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From: Harry Slaughter <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 21:37:12 -0700

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From: Linda Emerson <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 18:25:02 -0800 (PST)

This is working okay for me too, Harry.  There is a message that does
flash in the way that Paul described, but mine say "executing initial
keystroke command."

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