Subject: reflections

From: Dennis Gurgul <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 12:08:11 -0400 (EDT)

I have a user who dials in to a unix system via W-98 with Reflections II.
Basic unix commands work, but when she tries to start Pine, she gets an
error message that her terminal is lacking functions to run Pine.  Tried
vt-101 emulator, etc.  Is this a common problem?  Is there a setup item
we're missing.  Thanks.  Dennis.  

Dennis J. Gurgul
Helix System Management
617.724.3169

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From: Jeff A Kinsey <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 12:24:13 -0400 (EDT)

> we're missing.  Thanks.  Dennis.  

thanks to jeff liebermann and rsi... i was having fits with pine
on sco unix and jeff recommended anzio. i am using it on win/95
win/98 and win/nt both dialup and in place of telnet!

<stepping off soapbox>
vt100 should work. have them log into unix and at shell prompt
have them type:  echo $TERM
my guess is that it not really being set to vt100.

if it is, then the unix termcap/terminfo is not robust
enough with regard to vt100 feature set. try vt220 which
anzio again does very well.  is it reflectionX ??? i never
heard of reflection II. anzio lite for 32bit is $25.

hope this helps.

-jeff
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  "life is a beach... find one and enjoy it!"  -jeff a. kinsey

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From: Vinnie Chassot <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 10:08:21 -0700 (PDT)

I would check which terminal both sides think they are running -- I ran
into this problem with windows 95 telnet and a linux box -- I could telnet
in, but pine wouldn't run, even with vt102 on the 95 side -- eventually I
figured out that it was something about the "linux" term type (I
think..this was some time ago) that it didn't like, and setting TERM=vt100
worked..

so..in sh or bash, you can

echo $TERM
if it comes back something other than vt10* (or even if it does and you
are feeling like experimenting) you can do

TERM=vt100
export TERM

then try running pine...I don't know if it'll work..I know nothing of
reflections, but it seemed similar enough to my problem to mention :)

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learn the things I could never apply" -- Least Complicated

On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Dennis Gurgul wrote:

> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 12:08:11 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Dennis Gurgul <[email-masked]>
> To: Pine Discussion Forum <[email-masked]>
> Subject: reflections
> 
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