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From: krb@xx.acs.appstate.edu (Kinney Baughman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Gibberish in PINE on new install
Date: 9 Feb 1997 00:57:10 GMT
Organization: Appalachian State University
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Conrad Sabatier (conrads@neosoft.com) wrote:
: In article <5cllns$sld@lester.appstate.edu>,
: 	krb@xx.acs.appstate.edu (Kinney Baughman) writes:
: > 
: > At the moment, I'm just trying to get email set up.  Elm was one of the 
: > programs that didn't install.  When I fire up Pine, I get gibberish in 
: > place of all the highlighted menu items.  It appears the emulation is off 
: > or some such thing as that.
: > 
: > Anyone got any clues?  

: Sounds like you may have installed the Japanese version of Pine by 
: mistake (I did the same myself once).  :-)

Indeed I did!  Duly noted and changed.

But I must say, it was rather easy to do since the Japanese version of 
PINE is the default with the 2.1.6-Release.

I hope the FreeBSD folks change that with the next release.

Thanks for the help. 

Kinney