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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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. > > -- > Eduardo > http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/personal.html > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
