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Subject: Re: Your terminal, of type "ansi", is lacking functions needed to
 run  pine.      
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DanB -

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, DanB wrote:

>  Running pine.
> Your terminal, of type "ansi", is lacking functions needed to run pine.
> I get this message running telnet on windows box. Is there anyway to
> make it work other than using
>  a program like putty?

Telnet is enough of a security problem that many *NIX sysadmins remove it
from their services. puTTY using SSH is much less of a hazard.

Naturally puTTY _will_ do telnet sessions (with their same security
problems). Is that the usage you wish to avoid?

What problems does it cause you?

 John Mills
 john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu