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Re: Missing feature in Pine


Thanks Eduardo that did the trick...Now I'm able to have my email 'read'
to me by festival and pine.

Again,  thanks.

Jim

On Fri, 17 May 2002, Eduardo Chappa wrote:

> *** Jim.George (jim.george@blueyonder.co.uk) wrote today:
>
> :) I am hapily running Pine under Cygwin however I have a problem.
>
> Great!
>
> :) So my questions are
> :)
> :) 1) what is the command to pipe the email to an external viewer under cygwin
> :)    Pine?
>
> You need to have [X] enable-unix-pipe-command enabled in your
> configuration.
>
>  If you are using the bash shell, however, this is not the only
> requirement. The problem is that bash does not export the SHELL variable.
> It must be exported manually. If this is your case, simply add
>
>     export SHELL
>
> to you ~/.bash_profile file.
>
> The file /usr/doc/Cygwin/pine-4.44-1.README shows you an alternative
> solution to this problem. I hope you have read that document. This
> problem is specific to the bash shell, not to Pine.
>
> :) 2) can this even be achieved with this version of pine?
> :) 3) can the maintainer update the help screen?
>
> The problem is already solved in the documentation for Pine. My real
> question is if I should manually export this variable through a
> postinstall script. It is becoming a FAQ.
>
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