Subject: Pine and control-c

From: William Mahler <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 08:31:23 -0400 (EDT)

I have a strange problem with pine. First the configuration, I am running
pine 3.96 on a Linux box. 

The complaint from the users is that control-c does not work. I have tried
several time to re-create the error on the machines I use all the time. I
cannot get control-c to fail. I HAVE gotten it to fail on other machines. 
We are running for Telnet either Windows 95 telnet or NCSA telnet 2.6 or
2.7.  Most of these machines are Macs. We have check to be sure contrl-c 
is not configured as a "hot key". It makes no difference. 

Do any of you have an idea where else I can look?

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From: Barry Landy <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 10:55:49 +0100

On 15 May 1997, William Mahler wrote:

:>I have a strange problem with pine. First the configuration, I am running
:>pine 3.96 on a Linux box. 
:>
:>The complaint from the users is that control-c does not work. I have tried
:>several time to re-create the error on the machines I use all the time. I
:>cannot get control-c to fail. I HAVE gotten it to fail on other machines. 
:>We are running for Telnet either Windows 95 telnet or NCSA telnet 2.6 or
:>2.7.  Most of these machines are Macs. We have check to be sure contrl-c 
:>is not configured as a "hot key". It makes no difference. 
:>
:>Do any of you have an idea where else I can look?

Usually this is caused by the telnet intercepting control-c for its own
use. A work around is to use ESC-ESC-C instead (Pine always interprets
ESC-ESC-character as control-character).

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