Re: Problems with Pine

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Dec  9 06:21, Andy Koppe wrote:
> 2009/12/9 Angelo Graziosi:
> > It seems that some recent updates in cygwin-1.7 has broken Pine from MinTTY.
> > 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.  We didn't hear
from Igor for a long time now.  It would be nice if somebody could pick
up the package again as Cygwin package maintainer.
See http://cygwin.com/setup.html to see how to do it.


Thanks,
Corinna

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