Why FreePort? ( was RE: OPS: Re: implementing upgraded Lynx (cf. Lynx28, PINE42))

[Joe Mabel]

Which leads me back to a question I've asked before but can't remember getting a good answer to:

Why are we still using FreePort?

-----Original Message-----
From:	Rod Clark [SMTP:bb615 at scn.org]
Sent:	Sunday, February 13, 2000 9:38 AM
To:	scn at scn.org
Cc:	hardware at scn.org
Subject:	Re: OPS: Re: implementing upgraded Lynx  (cf. Lynx28, PINE42)

> From the main menu and from the 'go pine' menu, I tried
> pine42, pine4.2, pine 42, pine 4.2,
> PINE42, PINE4.2, PINE 42, PINE 4.2
> The consistent result was
> "Please type a command or the NUMBER of your choice."
> As well as permutations prefixed with "run" and "go";
> the consistent result was the above or
> "Type 'go' with no parameters to get a list of places to GO"
> Pine 4.2 did not run.

Malcolm, 

   Unlike Andrew's, your account isn't set up to run new
programs from the shell for usability testing. We can't yet put
pine42 on FreePort's general user test menu because it isn't
FreePort-mail compatible. It's easy to install standard pine42,
and that was done last year, but standard pine42 doesn't work
with mail in FreePort's peculiar two-mailbox system. Someone at
SCN will have to laboriously make that possible, before it can
be offered on FreePort, and I'm not the someone.

   Anyway, if you did have shell access from FreePort, you'd
type "shell" at the "Your Choice -->" prompt. But you won't be
able to use the new Pine from FreePort for some indefinite
length of time, until the FreePort programmers (who can be
counted on the fingers of one thumb, I believe, i.e. Randy) have
time to work on them. This isn't a skill that you can advertise
for, because it doesn't exist in the outside world.

Rod Clark

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