SUMMARY: Problem: DU4.0d + pine + 8 bit terminal input

From: Niels Kokholm <kokholm_at_math.ku.dk>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 10:37:39 +0100 (MET)

So far I got 2 answers, one suggesting that I write to the pine developers
(which I have done), the other reportingsimilar problems. I have no
solution so far, except holding back the upgrade to du4.0d.

   Niels Jørgen Kokholm | email: kokholm_at_math.ku.dk
   Matematisk Institut | phone: +45 3532 0759/+45 2128 6932
   Universitetsparken 5 | fax: +45 3532 0704
   DK-2100 København Ø, Denmark | www: http://www.math.ku.dk/~kokholm

On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Niels Kokholm wrote:

> After upgrading my alphastation to du40d from du4.0b (actually a fresh
> install), I recompiled the "pine" mail reader. because of the following
> error message:
>
> schubert:~/> /net/prod/appl/pine/pine3.96/bin/alpha/pine
> 29084:/net/prod/appl/pine/pine3.96/bin/alpha/pine: /sbin/loader: Fatal
> Error: object libcurses.so from liblist in
> /net/prod/appl/pine/pine3.96/bin/alpha/pine has version "osf.1", which
> does not match the found object: /usr/shlib/libcurses.so (with version
> "xpg4")
>
> The old pine probably was compiled on a du4.0b system or older, I do not
> recall precisely. The only changes made to the distributed source for pine
> is the *location* of pine.conf, pine.conf.fixed and the help files.
>
> Now, the new pine works fine except for the following "feature" (that
> appears on both 4.0b and 4.0d systems):
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> In some pine sessions the high bit will be stripped on 8 bit terminal
> input so that the special danish characters (in ISO-8859-1 ecoding) is
> changed to xfe. Sometimes this happens from the beginning of the session,
> sometimes after some time/use. It might be so that the highbit stripping
> can disappear from a session, but I am not sure I have seen this.
> The problem has been seen with pine running in a xterm and with pine
> running in a telnet session in a windows terminal emulator.
> We use
> tcsh 6.07.02 (Astron) 1996-10-27 (alpha-dec-osf1) options 8b,nls,dl,al,rh
> for login shell.
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Niels Jørgen Kokholm | email: kokholm_at_math.ku.dk
> Matematisk Institut | phone: +45 3532 0759/+45 2128 6932
> Universitetsparken 5 | fax: +45 3532 0704
> DK-2100 København Ø, Denmark | www: http://www.math.ku.dk/~kokholm
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