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Date:      Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:17:28 -0500 (EST)
From:      Scott Nolde <scott@smnolde.com>
To:        Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Color support in pine
Message-ID:  <20011207111226.P88759-100000@bsd.smnolde.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011207150208.M4803-100000@poison.ncptiddische.net>

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smacked into the keyboard previously by owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG:

 >Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 15:04:41 +0100 (CET)
 >From: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>
 >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
 >Subject: Color support in pine
 >
 >Hi folks,
 >
 >I have already sent the following to the pine mailing list, but since I
 >didn't get an answer there, I thought I'd try again on freebsd-questions:
 >
 >I have been using pine (currently 4.40) under FreeBSD for quite some years
 >now, and just today, I played around with the configuration a little one
 >more time. I thought I might try enabling pine's color support, but there
 >seems gto be a problem with just doing that:
 >
 >With color support turned on (no matter which one of the three options
 >that are available is selected), the screen gets pretty much messed up. All
 >lines seem to get redrawn exactly one line below their original position.
 >As a result of that, the entries in pine's menues get displayed twice, and
 >that just looks kind of strange.
 >
 >Interestingly, when trying to run pine with color under an xterm,
 >everything looks fine.
 >
 >Any suggestions on what's wrong and how it can be fixed are welcome. I
 >don't really need colors in pine, but it bugs me that they won't work and I
 >cannot seem to figure out why.
 >
 >Greetings
 >Nils
 >
 >
 >Nils Holland
 >Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany
 >http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org
 >

What shell were you using pine in before?  I've been using pine with
colors for several months now in xterm without problems.  Any shell that
can support colors will handle pine just fine.

Scott Nolde
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