Subject: Re: Session Hangs with Alternate Editor

From: [email-masked] (Holger Lillqvist)
Date: 11 Nov 1996 19:12:11 GMT

Paul O Bartlett wrote:
;     From time to time, when I go to reply to either mail or news, I get
; a session hang.  I will fill out the headers and then move down into
; the message body.  Pine generates the file on /tmp and invokes JOE. 
; However, at seemingly random intervals -- I have not been able to
; detect a pattern -- as soon as JOE is entered everything locks up tight. 

A nasty problem.. The obvious thing to do now is to change alternate editor
for a time (why not try jed with ws emulation, it is not so far from joe).
If the problems then are gone - well, too bad for joe. 

-- [email-masked]

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 11:33:27 -0500

I am wondering if any other Un*x Pine users have experienced
anything like this.

    I use Pine 3.94 under SunOS 4.1.4 with a DOS PC emulating a VT100
dialed into a shell account (C shell) via ProComm Plus v2/DOS.  In
place of the built-in Pine composer, I have specified as my alternate
editor (implicitly) JOE v2.8.

    From time to time, when I go to reply to either mail or news, I get
a session hang.  I will fill out the headers and then move down into
the message body.  Pine generates the file on /tmp and invokes JOE. 
However, at seemingly random intervals -- I have not been able to
detect a pattern -- as soon as JOE is entered everything locks up tight. 
The only way out I have been able to find is simply to hang up the
connection and log back in again, a bit clumsy to say the least.

    These sessions lockups seemingly at random started all at once a
couple of months ago.  I have not myself changed the level of any of my
software or made any configuration changes in any programs..  Before I
rattle the cage of my ISP, I was just wondering if any other Pine users
were experiencing similar problems.  The lockup always occurs precisely
when the alternate editor is entered.

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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