Subject: Re: Pine in Unix shell

From: [email-masked] (Sven Guckes)
Date: 11 Feb 1997 16:09:03 GMT

[email-masked] (Jens Doerpmund (IEP PhD)):
> When I use Pine on a remote terminal I cannot enter certain characters.

Such as?  ^[ ^Q ^S ^C ^^ a b c ?

> (I don't have these problems with other progs, such as elm.)
> Is this a problem with termcaps? I've set "term" to vt102.

Maybe you need to set TERM (upcase)?  Is vt102 defined in the termcap?
Do the docs to your terminal program say that it will understand it?

Sven

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From: [email-masked] (Jens Doerpmund (IEP PhD))
Date: 11 Feb 1997 15:36:05 GMT

Hi!

Is this a problem with termcaps? I've set "term" to vt102.
The terminal programm I am using is Minicom 1.71 under Linux.

Any help is very much appreciated.

  Jens

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From: [email-masked] (Robert Miles)
Date: 13 Feb 1997 16:02:44 -0500

In article <[email-masked]>,
Jens Doerpmund (IEP PhD) <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Sven Guckes ([email-masked]) wrote:
>: [email-masked] (Jens Doerpmund (IEP PhD)):
>: > When I use Pine on a remote terminal I cannot enter certain characters.

>: Such as?  ^[ ^Q ^S ^C ^^ a b c ?

>The characters which can be entered are:
>cefijkloqrtwx ABDGHKMNPSUVYZ 
>(Just realised that the lower and upper-case chars complement each other
>very nicely.)

I don't have an ASCII table handy to check, but that looks like the pattern
I'd expect if the parity settings don't agree between the two ends of the
remote connection, especially if at least one end is set for 7 bit
characters instead of 8 bit characters.
.
.
.
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.

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From: [email-masked] (Jens Doerpmund (IEP PhD))
Date: 13 Feb 1997 00:51:55 GMT

: > (I don't have these problems with other progs, such as elm.)
: > Is this a problem with termcaps? I've set "term" to vt102.

: Maybe you need to set TERM (upcase)?  Is vt102 defined in the termcap?
: Do the docs to your terminal program say that it will understand it?

The terminal program is set to vt102. So are are "term" and "TERM".
The termcap entry for vt102 looks fine to me. The problem may have something
to do with Pine, since elm works without problems. However, I have downloaded
and compiled two different versions of Pine (in addition to the one installed
by the Sys Admin), but the problem occurs in each of them.
Any more ideas?

: Sven

   Jens