[Alpine-info] External programs and job completion.

[Aidan Wilson]

I use alpine on about 5 machines now, and they just about all use the same 
config file. So I can't figure out why one of them doesn't consider a job 
to be completed when using an external program.

My machine at work will allow me to hit return on a hotlink, which will 
open firefox. As soon as the site is resolved, or probably earlier I 
guess, Alpine shows a status along thhe lines of 'job completed' and I can 
return to my inbox. At home though, the terminal window displays only my 
command prompt and an empty line until such a time as I either close 
firefox or hit ctrl-C in the terminal. Then and only then will it return 
to the message I was reading.

This doesn't appear to be the case when viewing attachments.

Any ideas?

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Aidan Wilson

The University of Sydney
+612 9036 9558
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aidan.wilson at usyd.edu.au