Subject: Re: Lockups under AIX...

From: Richard Munro <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 07:50:53 -0400

On Fri, 17 May 1996, Joachim Metge wrote:

> I reported the same problem. If you are running pine in an xterm you can
> force the screen to appear correctly if you change the window size after
> having pressed "C". BTW the same happens if you try to edit entries in
> your address book. I have got an answer to my problem from Alessandro
> Miotto (CERN), which says that if you compile pine3.93 under AIX3.2.5
> this version also runs under AIX4.1: 

Many thanks for the information.  I'll pick up the 3.2.5 binary and give
it a whirl.

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From: Joachim Metge <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 11:39:43 +0200

On Thu, 16 May 1996, Richard Munro wrote:

: We're running Pine 3.93 under three platforms: Ultrix, Sun/OS and AIX.  We
: are experiencing problems with the AIX version only in one area. 
: 
: When a person tries to use the letter "C" at the main menu to compose a
: message, Pine appears to lock up.  In fact it doesn't seem to be
: displaying the blank template.  We know this because if we use a CRTL-Z
: sequence followed by a "fg" command, the blank template shows up. 
: 
: This problem seems only to happen if there are no messages in the user's
: mailbox (i.e., a zero-byte mailbox). 
: 

I reported the same problem. If you are running pine in an xterm you can
force the screen to appear correctly if you change the window size after
having pressed "C". BTW the same happens if you try to edit entries in
your address book. I have got an answer to my problem from Alessandro
Miotto (CERN), which says that if you compile pine3.93 under AIX3.2.5 this
version also runs under AIX4.1:

> Hi, we have found the same problem here. I have been told from my AIX
> testers that the binary complied on AIX 3.2 works correctly on 4.1.
> Despite this I am also interested in finding out why the native 4.1
> binary has this problem. I do not believe it being a problem of pine
> 3.93 since it happened already when we compiled pine 3.91: it must be
> something with 4.1 compiler or libraries.
>
>        Alessandro

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 | Joachim Metge                                                          |
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