Pine in Hoary

[Bob Nielsen]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 02:14:49PM -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:00:01 +0100, Mart??n van de Streek wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> > 
> > > > What's wrong with nano? You can just install that the "usual Ubuntu way"
> > > > (using apt/synaptic). Just set your EDITOR environment variable and
> > > > everything will work.
> > >
> > > I meant pine. pico is already included (fortunately).
> > 
> > pico is under the same license as nano, so you're actually being fooled :)
> > 
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 9 2004-11-19 06:47 /usr/bin/pico -> /bin/nano
> 
> Sneaky buggers! I'll have to take a look under Ubuntu and see whether
> that's just a sneak hack. Under OS X pico is UW version 2.5, under
> YellowDogLInux it's UW version 4.6. Obviously these two distros (OS X
> is a distro since it's a flavour of BSD) went to the trouble of
> including pico (both) and pine (YDL).
> 

Err, it's just a symbolic link to nano, so it isn't really pico 
afterall (still rather sneaky, however).