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Message-Id: <199605312225.SAA07262@styx.ios.com>
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Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 18:27:42 -0400
To: Orlando Andico <orly AT abigail DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>,
"Jeffrey M. Perkel" <perkel AT dolphin DOT upenn DOT edu>
From: Ian Viemeister <vmeister AT ios DOT com>
Subject: Re: Q: Pine and Pico
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

At 01:59 PM 5/28/96 +0800, Orlando Andico wrote:
>On 28 May 1996, Jeffrey M. Perkel wrote:
>> 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 
>
>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...

But what about PC-Pine? (I haven't compiled it, just used it)

Ian
vmeister AT ios DOT com
http://styx.ios.com/~vmeister/

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