Subject: Pine 3.91 Error Message

From: "Brian E. Sherman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 23:41:38 -0800 (PST)

I have installed a copy of Pine3.91 on my machine to evaluate it for my 
users.  So far it is working out great with no problems.  However, 
when I start up Pine the following message appears:
 "libsocket: open (/dev/socksys) failure: No Such File or Directory"
This message appears 4 times and then the main menu of Pine appears.  
Pine works fine and there doesn't not seen to be any problems, but I 
would like to find out what is missing and take care of the problem. 

We are running on a AcerAltos 7000 (90mhz Pentium) cpu and the OS is
Altos/SCO Unix System V/386 Release 3.2 Version 4.2aC0 Run Time.  
Our system is just a "vanilla" setup with no network just serial 
terminals and printers.   As I get my users trained and the remote sites 
computerized we will be upgrading to a SLIP connection with our local 
Internet provider.

I assume that Pine is looking for a network connection and needs to be
told that none is available. I have looked through the docs and did not see
anything that referred to Unix networks directly.  Is this a setup 
configuration or a compile time option?  
Any help would be appreciated.  Thank You in advance.  
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From: [email-masked] (Gunther Anderson)
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 15:16:47 GMT

Brian E. Sherman ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I have installed a copy of Pine3.91 on my machine to evaluate it for my 
: users.  So far it is working out great with no problems.  However, 
: when I start up Pine the following message appears:
:  "libsocket: open (/dev/socksys) failure: No Such File or Directory"
: This message appears 4 times and then the main menu of Pine appears.  
: Pine works fine and there doesn't not seen to be any problems, but I 
: would like to find out what is missing and take care of the problem. 

: Altos/SCO Unix System V/386 Release 3.2 Version 4.2aC0 Run Time.  

Yes, it wants the TCP/IP code.  It's pretty insistent about it.  So far 
as I know, no simple compile-time switches exist to turn off that 
dependency.  Your only hope is to find someone who can take the code, 
ferret out all the TCP/IP-module dependent code and recompile it for you 
(I assume you don't have the compilers, since your OS says Run Time).

To compile Pine, you need the TCP/IP Developers Version.  To run it, you 
need at least the TCP/IP runtime version.

Gunther Anderson