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Date:      Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:07:52 -0800
From:      Steve Wingate <steve@velosystems.net>
To:        "Nils Holland" <nils@tisys.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Color support in pine
Message-ID:  <20011207110752.6d67daac.steve@velosystems.net>
In-Reply-To: <20011207150208.M4803-100000@poison.ncptiddische.net>
References:  <20011207150208.M4803-100000@poison.ncptiddische.net>

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I've seen the same thing when I use pine from my freebsd box to connect to my openbsd mailserver via imap. If I change the TERM from cons25 to vt100 it seems to go away most of the time. I just ssh to the mailserver and run pine; it works fine.

On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 15:04:41 +0100 (CET)
"Nils Holland" <nils@tisys.org> wrote:

> 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
> 
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