So, I don't have to do anything then with my ISP?  What do you think may
be causign my problem with the telnet sessions in Pine?  I turned off the
Winows Fire Wall, and made som changes to the settings with the buffers,
but with no results.





On Tue, 23 May 2006, Ron Canazzi wrote:

> Hi Jeff,
>
> It's free as far as I know.  I downloaded a copy about 6 months ago and it
> was still free then.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 9:54 PM
> Subject: Re: off topic, but a telnet problem with Pine
>
>
> What is the cost?  I like Pine, and like the useability of telnet as I can
> get to it from the hospital, but with my network being a freenet network I
> don't have much flexibility in terms of doing a lot.  I think that my
> issue may be with the Windows Fire Wall, and I'm looking at some of the
> telnet settings in there, and am wondering if I should just get rid of
> that fire wall as I have another one through my anti-virus program.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 22 May 2006, Ron Canazzi wrote:
>
> > Hi Jeff,
> >
> > Do you know that you can get a version of Pine ported to PC/Windows that
> > works reasonably well with screen readers?  It is available via the Pine
> > website at the Pine Information Center:
> > http://www.washington.edu/pine.
> >
> > This page explains the development, uses and availability of pine and
> > links
> > to which servers to obtain it from.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 9:26 PM
> > Subject: off topic, but a telnet problem with Pine
> >
> >
> > Hi everyone, I have a problem that has been with me for the last several
> > months with Pine.  I use Pine in a telnet window a lot in addition to
> > Outlook Express and I have had this weird problem where I'll be reading in
> > something in Pine and the session will just go to sleep on me.  I don't
> > know
> > what to do here, as this is a problem that happens in both DOS and Windows
> > with the telnet client, and I am using Windows XP Home.  The only thing
> > that
> > seems to be working in terms of keeping the session a live is using a
> > program that allows NUL packets to be sent every so often, where as to not
> > make the thing time out.  My ISP says that everything is working fine on
> > their end, and it is something with my laptop.
> >
>