On Tue, 6 Feb 1996 Angel.Orille@extern.lrz-muenchen.de wrote:

> Hi,
> I've compiled the sources of pine-3.91 with gcc-2.7.2.
> It compiled fine using build neb, but the annoying thing
> is that each time I start pine, I get the
> "Welcome to pine" text and it overwrites my .pinerc - settings.
> The pine-debug* (*=times I start pine) file states:
> 
> ...
> reading_pinerc "/root/.pinerc"
> Open failed: No such file or directory
> ...
> 
> Though .pinerc is there with -rw-r--r-- permissions, it is 
> not recognized; did someone else have this problem too
> and has someone fixed it?
> 
Yes - this is a problem that I had, and I don't even have gcc 2.7.2.  
Mine is like 2.4 or something.  But Pine won't read its config files at 
all, not even the system-wide ones.  I got elm to work nicely, though.  
That's a real prize for me, since elm is what I'm used to from school....

Dave