Subject: Re: unix "talk" and PINE...

From: "Daniel M. Griswold" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 14:53:35 -0600

On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Bruce Weaver wrote:

> 	I recently received a request to "talk" whilst PINE was running. 
> I found that I had to quit PINE before I could "talk" to the other person. 
> Is this usual, or am I missing some vital bit of information? 
> 

You do have to get back to your unix prompt to run the talk program. But
you do not necessarily need to quit pine. You could simply suspend pine.
You would do this by means of the ctrl-Z key sequence. When you do this,
pine is suspended, and you are returned to the unix prompt. You then could
run the talk command. When you are done with talk, entering fg will return
you to pine, indeed, to the very place in pine you had left.

Dan

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From: [email-masked] (Kenneth P. Turvey)
Date: 19 Mar 1997 23:06:01 GMT

Daniel M. Griswold ([email-masked]) wrote:
: You do have to get back to your unix prompt to run the talk program. But
: you do not necessarily need to quit pine. You could simply suspend pine.
: You would do this by means of the ctrl-Z key sequence. When you do this,
: pine is suspended, and you are returned to the unix prompt. You then could
: run the talk command. When you are done with talk, entering fg will return
: you to pine, indeed, to the very place in pine you had left.
: 
: Dan

This will only work if you have pine configured to honor the ctrl-z
sequence and suspend.  Check your .pinerc file...

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