> 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....

This is, I think, a known&fixed bug. The problem is that the original code
assumed that if you have the address of a double long, and want to read a
long, you just read from the same address. (They assumed a little-endian
machine.) I've seen the patch on the list before, and it's in
the next version.

Take care,

Bill