On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 12:24:27PM +0100, Thomas Baker wrote: > > > contrast to pine which I've read does have a native win32 port... > > > > Baochun Li has done a Cygwin port of Pine, see > > http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~bli/personal.html, but in my experience it > > only runs in an xterm window, requiring XFree86 or Exceed. However, I > > am not aware of a native win32 port other than PC-PINE, which is really > > not quite the same program and uses a proprietary mailbox file format. > > that's surprising (I would assume that pine, which uses termcap, would > run properly in a cygwin window or rxvt). Maybe not - I do know that > there are problems with cygwin switching between raw/cooked I/O modes > that show up when I spawn a subprocess from an ncurses application.
I said "in my experience" because I was having all kinds of weird problems with Cygwin until I discovered that several environment variables set by MKS Toolkit were wreaking havoc and removed them by hand; but maybe I missed something. On Mr Li's suggestion, however, pine did work with xterm. Tom ---- Dr. Thomas Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Birlinghoven Library, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft mobile +49-171-408-5784 Institutszentrum Schloss Birlinghoven work +49-30-8109-9027 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany fax +49-2241-14-2619