Subject: PIne3.85 on RS/6000 AIX 3.2.3

From: Bill Williams <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 93 09:52:16 EDT

I built the Pine 3.85 on a RS/6K AIX 3.2.3 machine using 'build_a32' and
the thing built without complaint!  Congrats to all you a32 port-ers.

Now the bad news:
When I TelNet in (using FTP's TCP/IP Software on my PC) with vt220
emulation, Pine/Pico complains that "vt220 is not a known terminal"!
Other utilities, vi and less, have no problems recognizing the vt220 so
what's the problem here?

Many activities get me kicked out with a "signal abort" and a coredump.
Immediately reproducable is:
    pine
         'L' -- List folders
...death by signal abort.

Any clues?

I have been running only in 'test' mode -- from where I built Pine3.85
-- and have *not* moved the files to the appropriate /usr/local/...
areas.

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   Bill Williams -- ETSU Systems Support
    East
    Tennessee             (615) 929-6853
    State   <[email-masked]>
    University        <[email-masked]>

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From: Bill Williams <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 93 15:36:25 EDT

On Wed, 6 Oct 1993 10:14:45 -0400 (EDT) Tim Cheney said:
>On Wed, 6 Oct 1993, Bill Williams wrote:
>Recompile using terminfo.

Did it, and it fixed that problem!  Thanks for the tip.
For other RS/6K AIX 3.2.3 users, the changes are to:
    pine/makefile.a32 and pico/makefile.a32
         change modules: tcap to tinfo (:%s/tcap/tinfo/g)
         change library: termcap to curses (:%s/termcap/curses/g)
and re-make for a32.

>I had this problem compiling on 3.2.3, but I compiled under 3.2.4 on
>another machine and the problem went away.

Like the bottom of a fireplace: grate!
Just for any wizard who loves these things, here's an edited version
of a .pine-debug file:
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Debug output of the Pine program (at debug level 2).  Version 3.85
Wed Oct  6 15:19:16 1993

reading_pinerc "/usr/local/lib/pine.conf"
Open failed: No such file or directory
reading_pinerc "/u/brw/.pinerc"
Read 6612 characters
...STUFF DELETED....
Userid: brw
Fullname: "Bill Williams -- ETSU Systems Support"
User domain name being used ""
Local Domain name being used "east-tenn-st.edu"
Host name being used "sched25.east-tenn-st.edu"
Mail Domain name being used "sched25.east-tenn-st.edu"
new win size -----<24 80>------
Terminal type: vt100
Context mail/[] type: LOCAL
Address book opened with 4 items

    ---- COMPOSE SCREEN (not in pico yet) ----

 === send called ===
new win size -----<24 80>------
about to end_tty_driver
Pine Panic: Received abort signal
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All these .pine-debug? files show death on the same thing:
    about to end_tty_driver
    Pine Panic: Received abort signal
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    B.R.Wms