Subject: terminal problems

From: Nancy Brown <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 10:16:57 -0800

I am experiencing intermittent difficulties logging onto pine from my home 
computer, a MacII with an older version of MicroPhone, the software that came 
with my SupraFAX v.32bis modem.

A couple of days ago, I received the following message when I typed "pine"
at the prompt:

Your terminal, of type "dumb", is lacking functions needed to run pine.

I was unable to open pine at that point. Hanging up and redialing a couple of 
times, I was able to get into pine as usual.  I have been using pine for three years 
and this is the first time I have seen this message. The terminal settings in my
software are set to VT102/ANSI, which is the closest to VT100 it gets.
Nothing has been changed on my system since I started using pine for the first 
time, except that I  have been using a different service provider for about four 
months. They are unable to help, however.

Can you suggest a course of action?

Thanks
Nancy Brown
Palo Alto, CA

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From: [email-masked] (Orjan Johansen)
Date: 6 Mar 1997 17:46:32 GMT

>Your terminal, of type "dumb", is lacking functions needed to run pine.

Apparently the terminal type is not being exchanged. I have that 
problem with some terminal software. Presumably the Unix server has 
changed from assuming vt100 by default to assuming dumb.

Alternatively, it does not recognize vt102 as a variant of vt100 any 
more.

>Can you suggest a course of action?

1) Check whether your terminal program has an option somewhat like 
"announce self as VT102" and change that into VT100. This might be 
independent of what type it is actually emulating.

2) If that doesn't work, insert one of the following in your login 
file (both the name of the file, and which command to use, depends on 
your login shell)

setenv TERM vt100
export TERM=vt100

Greetings,
Ørjan.

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From: Marco De la Cruz <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 21:41:44 GMT

[email-masked] (Nancy Brown) writes:

> A couple of days ago, I received the following message when I
> typed "pine" at the prompt:

What shell is the computer you log into running?
If you don't know, try:
echo $SHELL
or use finger:
finger nbro
and look under "Shell:".

If you are using "sh" try:
TERM=vt100
for "csh" try:
setenv TERM vt100
for "bash" try:
export TERM=vt100

For other shells try "man yourshell" (e.g. man bash)
and check out how you can set the TERM environmental
variable...

> time, except that I  have been using a different service provider for
> about four  months. They are unable to help, however.

They can't be _that_ clueless!

> Can you suggest a course of action?

Hope this helps...

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http://128.100.80.13/marco/alita.html

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From: [email-masked] (Orjan Johansen)
Date: 10 Mar 1997 01:16:36 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
>If you are using "sh" try:

I believe in that case you also need

export TERM

Greetings,
Ørjan.