Subject: pine gets into a weird situation if it can't connect

From: Matt Ackeret <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:36:02 -0700 (PDT)

I'm in a situation where pine can't connect..

I get
              [Unable to create TCP socket: Protocol not supported]

(But many other TCP programs _are_ working..)

Apparently pine is asking for a protocol # that's messed up in my current
config..

But even weirder, once pine is in this situation, only "q" seems
to do anything... for example, hitting ? says:
           [Command "?" not defined for this screen. Use ? for help]

This is pine 4.33.

1) is there some hacky way, without recompiling, I can get out of this
situation?  (it's some NetInfo file problem and I have tried various
solutions.)

But mostly I wanted to just mention how pine can get into a very weird zombie
state when it can't make the initial connection.

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From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:57:04 -0700 (PDT)

*** Matt Ackeret ([email-masked]) wrote in the pine-info list today:

:) But even weirder, once pine is in this situation, only "q" seems
:) to do anything... for example, hitting ? says:
:)            [Command "?" not defined for this screen. Use ? for help]
:)
:) 1) is there some hacky way, without recompiling, I can get out of this
:) situation?  (it's some NetInfo file problem and I have tried various
:) solutions.)

Matt,

Make sure that you have enabled both of the following features:

        use-subshell-for-suspend,
        enable-suspend,

and press ^Z, then come back to pine, by writing "exit" in the shell
created by Pine. The problem is that Pine is confused about the screen
that it's supposed to be displaying (e.g Pine may think that is displaying
the folder screen when it is actually displaying the index). In this
situation almost no commands work. I am surprised to see that at least one
command is working.

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Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/