Subject: Re: none

From: Jean Coffin <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 16:00:22 -0500 (EST)

I'm a new participant in the Pine system and I would like to know two
things
A) Why won't the system let me change my password

B) How can I send messages without having "6" printed on every
message.

RE: Password- I get into the setup option and I get a message that
reads: sh: /bin/passwd: No such file or directory
then the message disappears after two seconds and doesn't let me
choose a new password.  Help!

RE: "6"  I have to hold down the control, shift then "^" &"X" keys
and the "^" leaves a "6" on my messages. how do I avoid that?  Any
help would be appreciated.  

Sincerely,
Jean C.
6

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 04 Mar 1998 23:21:13 +0100

>> "JC" == Jean Coffin wrote on Wed, 4 Mar 1998 16:00:22 -0500 (EST):

JC> I'm a new participant in the Pine system and I would like to know
JC> two things
JC> A) Why won't the system let me change my password

Because you don't have the binary executable (aka program) to do that
in your search path. Talk to your admin.

JC> B) How can I send messages without having "6" printed on every
JC> message.

JC> RE: "6" I have to hold down the control, shift then "^" &"X" keys
JC> and the "^" leaves a "6" on my messages. how do I avoid that?  Any
JC> help would be appreciated.

You seem to have a terminal emulation problem. ctrl + x doesn't work,
does it?

Robin

-- 
Robin S. Socha
Political Science Dept., Bonn University 
Easy to use is bullshit (Stoney Edwards)

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From: Jean Coffin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 13:20:45 -0500 (EST)

6

> You seem to have a terminal emulation problem. ctrl + x doesn't work,
Well it works well enough, but I end up sending silly looking email.
What is terminal emulation?   What can I do?
Jean6

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 05 Mar 1998 19:41:30 +0100

>> Regarding Re: none; Jean Coffin <[email-masked]> adds:
JC> 6 On 4 Mar 1998, Robin S. Socha wrote:

I still don't get it... Why don't you just press strg+x? Does it not
work? Or what are you trying to achieve with the above key combination?

>> You seem to have a terminal emulation problem. ctrl + x doesn't
>> work, does it?
JC> Well it works well enough, but I end up sending silly looking
JC> email.

True.

JC> What is terminal emulation?

Terminal emulation is program you use to connect to your Internet Service
Provider (ISP). But you seem to be using pine for Linux... Strange... Could
you explain in a few, easy to understand words how exactly you go about
writing mail, i.e. which Operating System (OS) (if under some flavour of
unix, say uname -a) and so on?  Actually, however, this is a problem your
provider should solve for you, because it's not a pine related problem.

JC> What can I do?  Jean6

Cute name...

Cheers,
Robin

-- 
Robin S. Socha
The spaceship shuddered.  Captain Wilson saw his navigator cringing
from a suddenly blue screen.  Damn it.  If they survived this, a
certain Redmond, USA, earth would find itself in hot plasma...

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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 13:16:39 -0600 (CST)

>From: Jean Coffin <[email-masked]>
>Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 13:20:45 -0500 (EST)

>What is terminal emulation?   What can I do?

Since you haven't given us sufficient details, I'll assume that you are on a
Unix system, and dialing in via a shell account. It would help if you told us
what kind of shell, but no matter.

The remote computer and your local computer must emulate the same terminal in
order for your screen to display correctly. Typically, that's "vt102"
(preferred) or "vt100".

You run a communications program on your local computer in which you set your
terminal emulation. Set that to "vt102", if available, or "vt100".

On the remote computer (I'll assume your aren't using c shell) type "set". Look
for the environment variable TERM. Does it say TERM=vt102 or TERM=vt100?

To change the TERM for the rest of this session, type "export TERM=vt102", or
whatever matches your local terminal emulation.

To change the TERM for future sessions, edit your file .profile, and change the
TERM= line.

Remember, select the proper emulation on your local computer, and if need be,
change the TERM on the remote computer to match.

For further information, ask your system administrator.

If you are connecting via PPP and telnet instead of a shell account, tell us
all the details we don't have to guess.