Subject: Insert vs. Overwrite?

From: Ovanes Manucharyan <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 18:39:07 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

We've upgraded to 3.96 from 3.91 and have a minor problem.

Users are complaining that now by default,
the editor is in overwrite mode instead of
insert mode.

Does anyone know how to change this.

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,

Ovanes M.

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From: Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 23:17:28 +0800 (GMT)

> We've upgraded to 3.96 from 3.91 and have a minor problem.

Why did you "upgrade" to 3.96 when the current release is 4.05?

> Does anyone know how to change this.

What platform are you running on?

Thanks,
Ed

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From: Timothy J Luoma <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:15:01 -0500

Author:	Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]>
	Date:	Wed, 3 Feb 1999 23:17:28 +0800 (GMT)
	ID:	<[email-masked]>

> Why did you "upgrade" to 3.96 when the current release is 4.05?

There are lots of reasons.

Going from .91 to .96 should be relatively painless, as the UI
didn't change all that much.

.05 is a very different beast, which does not behave like 3.9x.

I'm still using 3.96 until the UI returns to a more usable format
(in the Mail and News folder listings is the major difference, plus
the key commands have changed.  All of which was a very bad idea
IMO)

TjL

ps -- this still doesn't answer the real question which was asked

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From: Steven Ertelt <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 09:57:27 -0500 (US Eastern Standard Time)

I switched to PC Pine for Windows not long ago. The Pine I used to use
didn't amke it so when you used ctrl-K to delete a line that it would be
added to the clipboard and pasted the next time you use the Paste command.
Anyway to disable that so it doesn't paste?

Thanks,
Steven

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From: "Ed Greshko" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 16:46:57 +0800

> There are lots of reasons.

And then there is a good reason.  :-)

It appears that the imap server they are using is somehow incompatible with
the latest version of pine.

> ps -- this still doesn't answer the real question which was asked

The platform being used is HP/UX.  I happen to have access to a similar
platform running 3.96 and it doesn't exhibit the behavior mentioned.  This
doesn't answer the real question either....but it appears to rule out a pine
specific issue.

Regards,
Ed

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From: Ovanes Manucharyan <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 11:58:22 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

> doesn't answer the real question either....but it appears to rule out a pine

Yes, perhaps it could be said that this is not a pine-specific issue,
since it only happens for some users and not for others too...

Even for accounts that reported the problem, I logged in as the user,
from my terminal, then I tried to use pine, and it works fine.

They however complain that it doesn't work.

I wonder if it has something to do with the terminal they are using?

Ovanes

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From: Daniel Sands <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 09:59:22 -0700

I don't even see an option to switch between insert and overwrite.  Are you
sure it is really overwriting in the message, and not just on the screen?  If
they are using the wrong terminal type, any strange thing can happen.