Subject: pine 3.96: "Error saving configuration"

From: [email-masked] (Georg Schwarz)
Date: 3 Mar 1997 15:20:41 GMT

I've just compiled pine 3.96 on Linux 2.0 (actually a Slackware 3.1
distribution). Now when I start the binary I get the following error
message:

[Error saving configuration in file "/home/schwarz/.pinerc": Unknown
error]

virtually every time I do something with pine (launch, quit,...)

/home/schwarz has the following permissions:

helena schwarz 559 (~/pine3.96): ls -lad ~
drwx------  20 schwarz  users        3072 Mar  3 16:13 /home/schwarz/

There is still enough disk space.
~/.pinerc does not exist (and is not created by pine, probably due to that
error).

On IRIX 5.3 and Ultrix 4.2, where I've also compiled pine 3.96, everything
seems to work fine, as does pine 3.95 on Linux.

Any ideas what could be the reason?
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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 13:57:05 -0800

> ~/.pinerc does not exist (and is not created by pine, probably due to that

Does the .pine-debug1 file shed any additional light on the problem? 
It should include some additional information, like the full pathname
of the file it was trying to open... 

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