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Re: [LI] which is better



Does elm have IMAP support?
Kousik

On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Sharad Joshi wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> This is not meant to start a bloody war, but just for information, which
> MUA is better, pine or elm. I do
> 
> bash$ ls -l `which pine elm`
> -rwxr-sr-x   1 root      mail       301588 Dec 12  1995 /usr/bin/elm
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root      bin       1188816 May  5  1999 /usr/bin/pine
> 
> Ooops, pine is nearly 4 times in size than elm. Personally, i have always
> been using pine. Is there anything which pine provides, and elm does
> not? Or do i need to recompile my pine (but both already use the same
> libraries).
> 
> bash$ ldd `which pine elm`
> /usr/bin/pine:
>         libtermcap.so.2 => /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8
>         libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5.3.12
> /usr/bin/elm:
>         libtermcap.so.2 => /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8
>         libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5.3.12
> 
> Why is pine so memory thirsty?
> 
> Sharad.
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