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On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, der Mouse wrote:

* ->>> [...screen...pine or emacs...]
* ->
* ->> Some versions of pine do not check for the the error code that 4.4BSD
* ->> systems return in this case.  Make sure your pine does handle the
* ->> error correctly, if it gets reported.
* ->
* ->Regardless of what pine does or doesn't do, it should not be possible
* ->for user-land to hold onto a pty in such a way as to produce the
* ->symptoms described.  If it is it's a bug.  (Pine may also be buggy if
* ->it doesn't die correctly, but that doesn't excuse the pty driver not
* ->doing the right thing - either completely revoking access to the slave
* ->side, or refusing to allow the master to be reopened until the slave is
* ->irrevocably released by user-land.)

Not sure if this means anything, but sometimes my version of pine likes to
lock (it'll just sit there).  It'll say "sending mail 0% done".  I wind up
just killing it from another terminal and loading it up again (fortunately
I've learned to save the message I'm writing as /tmp/pico.temp).  Any chance
that this ties in?

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