Subject: Re: your mail

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 13:56:46 -0500 (EST)

I am NKreitzer@ SUNYRockland.edu and am having a problem with pine.
Yesterday I pushed "help" becuase several times I could neither send nor
keep a reply to an email I had received.  When I pressed the "help?"
function, my printer began prewing forth endless pages called "Release
Notes for Pine..A Program for Internet News and Email.  I cannot get out
of this mode, although I shut off my computer on October 9th and went
home.  Today, October 10th, when I turned the printer on again, it kep
printing this same material even though I was not in "pine" mode.  Someone
local has yet to take a look at my computer and printer, but, meanwhile I
cannot use anything.  What gives?    N. Kreitzer

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From: Noone Special <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 09:03:57 -0500 (EST)

> I am NKreitzer@ SUNYRockland.edu and am having a problem with pine.
First, is it unix pine or PC Pine?

> Notes for Pine..A Program for Internet News and Email.  I cannot get out
It's just an idea, but perhaps you have the incorrect terminal emulation?
I know that that situation can cause all sorts of weird things to happen.
What exactly were you pressing, in what area of pine, and how many times,
etc.  Also, what version are you running? :)

> local has yet to take a look at my computer and printer, but, meanwhile I
Well that probably just means that your printer is very persistant.  Some
printers get a bug up their *@@ and can't seem to realize you wanted to
cancel their printing (IE they have a battery-operated memory that holds
what they were printing when you turned them off and then starts over when
you turn them on)

Some printers come equipped with the ability to look into their que and
kill what is there.  You might also try UNPLUGGING the printer from the
wall and not just turning it off.. this may or may not work.

Pat