Subject: Posting news (authenticated) fills Login name with garbage

From: Kenneth Simler <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 10:00:30 -0500

I'm using Pine 3.95 on an AIX 3.2.5 box.  This works fine most of the
time.  However, there's one apparent bug I've encountered, which I've
reported to the Pine development team (and received an automated response
several weeks ago, nothing else).  I was wondering if anyone here knows a
good solution, or at least a workaround, for this problem.

My news server authenticates users by requesting a Login name/password
pair whenever posting (gawd how I wish more news servers would do this!). 
Thanks to the Pine dev team for including support for this somewhere
between 3.91 and 3.95.  

Anyway, the first time I post to a newsgroup in a given session, all goes
well.  However, usually on second or later posts within a session, when
Pine prompts me for the Login Name, the space is filled with dozens or
hundreds of characters, usually appearing to be a part of post to which I
have responded (it looks pretty garbled in the small "window" made for the
Login Name).  If I hit Ctrl-A (beginning of line) Ctrl-K (kill to end of
line) I can wipe it out and type in my Login Name <enter>, and get a
Password prompt, enter password <enter> and away goes the post just fine.

I've noticed on a small minority of occasions (have not yet identified
what I do that makes these instances different) Pine does *not* insert all
those characters, and instead has my Login Name -- and nothing else --
inserted in the correct place, so I just have to hit enter.

Anyone else experienced this and/or know of a solution or better
workaround??

Thanks.  Email and replies to the group are equally welcome.  I'll
summarize any useful email replies that don't appear in the ng.

-Ken

-- 
Kenneth Simler
Research Associate,  Food and Nutrition Policy Program
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY  14853   USA
[email-masked]  http://mango.human.cornell.edu/kens/

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 11:56:33 +0000 (GMT)

I encountered this myself and have come up with a fix for it (reported and
sent to the Pine Team).

If you're still having problems let me know privately and I'll try and
separate out the changes I made.

Cheers,

-- 
Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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