Subject: help

From: Jason Bolin <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 23:47:26 -0400 (EDT)

my name is jason my email account is in trouble. when  open it by typing
at the sys prompt pine 
it comes up and the first thing it says "Bad OR MISSING COMMA?"

  [Bad initial keystroke "" (missing comma?) 
that is it exactly 
i cant recieve mail anymore on this accoutn
i can however send mail to my self and recieve it. if you can help please
send me mail to [email-masked]
thanx
jmb

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 08:02:57 +0200 (CEST)

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On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Jason Bolin wrote:

  >at the sys prompt pine it comes up and the first thing it says "Bad OR
  >MISSING COMMA?"

Just what it says. You've toyed around with the setup and now it's broken.
Say:

	M(ain)
	S(etup)
	C(onfig)

and clear the field for "initial keystroke". If you can't do that, edit the
file .pinerc, e.g. by saying:

	joe ~/.pinerc

and clear the respective line.		

  >that is it exactly i cant recieve mail anymore on this accoutn i can
  >however send mail to my self and recieve it.

Oops?

Later,
Robin  

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From: [email-masked] (Sylvain Robitaille)
Date: 7 Jun 1997 15:37:35 GMT

>send me mail to [email-masked]

Have a look in the (S)etup, (C)onfig menu for the initial keystrokes list. If
you don't expect it to contain anything, then make sure it is empty. If you
*do* expect it to contain items, make sure you add them using the (A)dd item
selection. Check the context sensitive help, (?), for information on how it
should be formatted.

If this isn't the problem, then possibly "pine" at your command prompt has
been aliased incorrectly? Type 'which pine' to find out. The response will
tell you if it's been aliased, and to what.

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Sylvain Robitaille                          [email-masked]

Assistant to the System Manager
Computing Services Department
Concordia University                          Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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