Subject: PC-Pine 4.03: Alternate editor problem

From: Tibor Szep <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 12:06:18 +0200 (Central Europe Daylight Time)

[Sorry, if this is not the right forum for reporting this problem.]

If I try to call the alternate editor (^_) in the message composing
screen I get the the following error message (on a Windows NT WS 4.0
SP3) and the program hangs:

Application Error
The instruction at "0x004e8cd5" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The
memory could not be "read".

The earlier version (PC-Pine 3.96) worked correctly.

After deleting content of the 'editor' entry in the configuration, the
alternate editor works properly.

WBR,
Tibor Szep

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From: Stephen Casner <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 15:57:33 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

> memory could not be "read".

I'm getting the same failure.  It occurs both on NT and on '95 (though
the format of the error message is different).  Suspecting that
perhaps there was something bad in the pinerc or other files that I
was bringing in from 3.96, I tried installing 4.03 into a fresh
directory and running it as if pine had not run on that machine
before.  It still crashes if I try to invoke an alternate editor.  It
does not seem to matter what the alternate editor is (I want it to be
emacs as I have previously used with 3.96, but I also tried "notepad"
and pine still crashes the same way).  Meanwhile, my neighbor is using
4.03 to invoke epsilon as the alternate editor, and it works fine.  I
have not figured out what's different between his configuration and
mine.

Any clues would be much appreciated.
							-- Steve

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From: Stephen Casner <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 23:33:51 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

PC-Pine 4.04 fixed 4.03's problem of crashing when trying to invoke the
alternate editor.  However, 4.04 asks for the alternate editor command
to be entered manually rather than using the contents of the "editor"
variable if that variable contains any arguments in addition to the
command executable name.

My guess is that PC-Pine tries to invoke the whole "editor" string as the
execuable filename, which would fail if any arguments were specified.  Is
there any form of quoting or other syntax that will allow PC-Pine to
distinguish the arguments from the executable name?  Note that 3.96 could
handle these arguments correctly.
							-- Steve

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From: Stephen Casner <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 18:38:15 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

I was so hopeful, seeing a new release come out, then my hopes were
dashed; this problem isn't one of the ones that was fixed in 4.05: