Hi all -

I have an odd relationship with Plan 9. It sits on one of the primary
partitions of my laptop. Every once in a while I think "Crikey, I'm not
smart enough to do anything with this," and think about replacing it
with, oh, I don't know, another Linux distro ... but then I will dig a
little into the list archives, boot the system up, fiddle, and solve one
or more of my issues. And then the fascination takes hold again ...

Last night was a good problem-solving night. But one of my continuing
frustrations is that, although networking works, I am having issues
'communicating' from the system ... so if I have a problem with something
in Plan 9, I have to reboot into Linux or (bleah) Win XP in order to
communicate it ...

More specifically, I can ssh from Plan 9 into my account at SDF
(sdf.lonestar.org aka freeshell.org). I've played around with ssh options
some and improved what I am seeing in the terminal connected to that
account, but when I fire up Pine to attempt reading my email, I get a
screen that is 1/2 muck/garbage characters.

* Glenn Becker sdf.lonestar.org> [080529 16:50]:

do you run it in vt? otherwise you will see ncurses garbage all
over the place.

HTH

Christian

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It sounds like you need to run vt first,
which gives you a vt100 terminal emulator
that pine will be able to drive.

Russ

an alternative is to run a vnc session
on the remote (non-plan 9) machine and
use vncv to connect to it.

that might be useful if vt would not be able
to support all cursor control that pine needs.

Axel.

Thanks all for the replies. I will look forward to trying this out.

It works great. This is my epochal first email "via" Plan 9. :D