From Pine, how do I exit to the Unix shell without quitting the program?

Note: Pine is not available on any central UITS systems. UITS does not support the use of Pine at Indiana University.

If you have Pine suspension enabled, you may exit to the Unix shell prompt by pressing Ctrl-z . To return to Pine, at the Unix prompt, enter fg . If you don't have suspension enabled, when you press Ctrl-z , you will instead see the following error:

"[Pine suspension not enabled - see help text]"

To enable suspension, follow these instructions:

1. At the Pine Main Menu, press  s  for Setup and then  c  for Config.
   
   
2. In the Setup Configuration menu, find the option "enable-suspend". Press  x  to activate Pine suspension.
   
   
3. Press  e  and then  y  to exit the Setup Configuration menu and save your changes.

Note: If you would like Pine to create a subshell instead of exiting to its parent shell, in the Setup Configuration menu, also activate the option "use-subshell-for-suspend". With this option enabled, instead of entering fg to return to Pine, enter exit .

Also see:

• How can I configure Pine so that Ctrl-z will suspend my session?
• In Pine, how do I access Unix commands?
• Unix job control command list
• How do I run a Unix process in the background?