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Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 22:28:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@iafrica.com>
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Subject: Re: Pine freezing up with PPP
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On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Khetan Gajjar wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Doug White wrote:
> 
> > I personally liked the background mode.
> 
> I couldn't find an option to have it automatically background. It's an
> option when you're sending the message. Any way to overwrite this in the
> .pinerc and have it background every time ?

In 3.94, it doesn't appear to be working.  The help says that the
background feature is unavailable in many Unix ports.  

So you end up waiting.  Usually it's only 3-5s.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major