Problems with Pine

Andy Koppe andy.koppe@gmail.com
Wed Dec 9 06:21:00 GMT 2009


2009/12/9 Angelo Graziosi:
> It seems that some recent updates in cygwin-1.7 has broken Pine from MinTTY.
> Now, trying to start from MinTTY:
>
> $ pine
> Terminal type "xterm", is unknown.

I can reproduce that by uninstalling the termcap package, so install
that and hopefully you'll be fine. Looks like the pine package is
missing a dependency there. (And in any case, it ought to be using
terminfo instead of the obsolete termcap.)

Andy

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