Subject: re: pc-pine : what does "no-op dead stream" mean ?

From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 17:06:27 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

"No-op dead stream" means that the connection to the server was lost.  In
some cases, a single Pine operation (such as opening a session)  involves
multiple operations to the server.  Pine does all those operations in a
batch.  If an earlier operation in the batch failed due to the disconnect,
then all the subsequent operations in the batch will also fail, and the
failure those subsequent operations will get is "no-op" (meaning that no
operation was done) "dead stream" (meaning that the communications stream
with the server is dead).

The next version of Pine will have a more understandable message.

In any case, the problem is probably in the server and not with Pine.  You
may also want to try the latest release version of PC Pine, 4.44, on
	ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/

-- Mark --

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