Re: Pine (pico?)
In article <[🔎] B9EBDDB4.8CC8%sneex@bellsouth.net> sneex@bellsouth.net writes:
>Is there some significance as to there not being a "pine" package in the
>Debian distro? I did some looking and apparently it is lacking - not just
>for Sparc but for all platforms?
Pine and pico are not available for legal reasons. (redistribution of
modified versions not allowed)
>OK, I am not a wuss I am learning vim and emacs better, but I just was
>wondering if maybe I am not looking correctly or if there is another reason
>that pine is missing?
If you like pico, you should be happy with nano as an editor. (Nano drove
me up a wall when it was installed as the default editor, had word-wrap
enabled, and I needed to edit /etc/apt/sources.list .)
Further discussion of alternatives should go on debian-user.
Legal discussions should go on debian-legal. You can look up the discussion
of pine in the archives of debian-legal.
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