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Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 11:00:46 +0000
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Subject: Re: Problems with Pine
From: Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com>
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2009/12/9 Corinna Vinschen:
> On Dec =C2=A09 06:21, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> 2009/12/9 Angelo Graziosi:
>> > It seems that some recent updates in cygwin-1.7 has broken Pine from M=
inTTY.
>> > Now, trying to start from MinTTY:
>> >
>> > $ pine
>> > Terminal type "xterm", is unknown.
>>
>> I can reproduce that by uninstalling the termcap package, so install
>> that and hopefully you'll be fine. Looks like the pine package is
>> missing a dependency there. (And in any case, it ought to be using
>> terminfo instead of the obsolete termcap.)
>
> Unfortunately the pine package is without maintainer. =C2=A0We didn't hear
> from Igor for a long time now. =C2=A0It would be nice if somebody could p=
ick
> up the package again as Cygwin package maintainer.
> See http://cygwin.com/setup.html to see how to do it.

Meanwhile, could you add a termcap dependency to pine's setup.hint?

Andy

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