Thanks to Erik for suggesting building a kernel.  That did the trick.
johnh...
On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, Erik Bertelsen wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, John C. Hayward wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Can't access terminal or input is not a terminal. Redirection of
> > standard input is not allowed. For example "pine < file" doesn't work.
> > 
> 
> Are you building your own kernel?
> 
> I have seen this when I tried to clean up my kernel configuration file.
> In my case, I had to add "options COMPAT_43" (check precise name in
> GENERIC) to my kernel configuration file again to make this pine
> problem disappear.
> 
> regards
> Erik Bertelsen.
> 
>