Subject: Stuck in debug mode

From: [email-masked] (P.D.Bates)
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 1994 13:39:20 GMT

Hello there...

Sorry to trouble everyone with this,
but I'm not sure where-else to
address this query to...

I ftp'ed straight executables
of pine and pico for the Sun
onto my system... (because
of not having, or rather
experiencing problems with
the C-compiler at our site)

Pico works fine, but Pine
is for some reason stuck
in debug mode, so typing 'pine'
is the equivalent of 'pine -d 4'?
because I end up with a total number
of 4 .pine-debug reports before they
loop around again...

Is this a problem with my system,
or is pine (3.89 in this case)
meant to default to debug mode?

It doesn't seem to be experiencing
any problems with my system, it
just automatically gives me a
debug report anyway.

Can I cure this?

Is there somewhere I can contact 
about bugs or for help?

Thanks a lot...

Peter Bates,
University of Bradford, UK.

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From: [email-masked] (Barry Bouwsma)
Date: 19 Jul 1994 16:43:52 GMT

>meant to default to debug mode?

    Pine's default is to create up to four debug files, at I forget what
debug level, so that if there are problems, there is something available
to be looked at.  Otherwise, they get overwritten and merely use space
until that time when you do need to refer to them, so they're harmless,
yet beneficial.

>Is there somewhere I can contact 

    To report bugs, write to <[email-masked]>.
There is a good on-line help built into Pine, and the tech-notes that
come with the distribution are often enough to answer your questions.
If you still can't resolve something, you could post here (as you have
just done) and someone could help you, be it another user with an answer
or the Pine Team for the authoritative Word.

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