Cameron Kaiser skrev:
>> Doing email through a shell account was pretty painful, with the slow
>> serial link handlers that UNIX shell accounts offered. The Windows-based
>> email handlers embedded in Internet Explorer, Netscape, etc, or Eudora,
>> which was separate, were all MUCH easier and quicker to deal with.
>Maybe Pine sucked over a serial line, but Elm is much less termcap-spendy. I
>still use Elm to read my E-mail. Man was meant to read mail on-spool.
Pine works fine if you connect at 14k4 or more. At very slow speeds (~2k4), it
will even adjust itself to a less chatty behaviour with a lot of less ANSI
sequences.
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David McMinn
Received on Fri Nov 23 2001 - 01:05:48 GMT