Date:	Tue, 28 May 1996 13:59:21 +0800 (GMT+0800)
From:	Orlando Andico <orly AT abigail DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To:	"Jeffrey M. Perkel" <perkel AT dolphin DOT upenn DOT edu>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Q: Pine and Pico
In-Reply-To:	<4ofgnf$vig@netnews.upenn.edu>
Message-ID:	<Pine.LNX.3.91.960528135653.2573B-100000@abigail.eee.upd.edu.ph>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On 28 May 1996, Jeffrey M. Perkel wrote:

> Hello, out there,
> 
> Does anyone know if the Linux source code for the Pine/Pico package 
> (pine-3.93-1.tar.gz) can be compiled under MS-DOS with DJGPP (the latest 
> release available from SimTel.Net)?  Please reply via email.
> Thanks,

"Not bloody likely" :)

You could *probably* get Pico to build, if you install the PDCurses 
package for DJGPP, as this program requires some sort of Curses. The 
question is, why would you use such an ugly editor as Pico (I use it, on 
Suns, because I have no other choice except vi <&$&$> and emacs <BIG>)

As for Pine, no, because DJGPP currently doesn't have a full set of 
TCP/IP functions. Yes, there's WATTCP for DJGPP, but it doesn't have 
"fun" stuff like gethostbyname(). Besides, Pine uses sendmail for 
delivery (unless I'm much mistaken), and sendmail under DOS? ya gotta be 
kidding...

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