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From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@arg1.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: pine3.96 core dump
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 11:06:25 +0100
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Annelise Anderson wrote:
> 
> I just built and installed the pine 3.96 port on FreeBSD 2.2, and
> it core-dumps (floating point exception) except when run as root.
> 
> How can I fix this?
> 
> Thanks--
> 
>         Annelise 

Maybe somthing odd in  /usr/local/etc/pine.conf or
/usr/local/etc/pine.conf.fixed  ?

I had a similar problem when I accidentally had a complete copy of
everything in pine.conf.fixed, rather than just those variables I
wanted to override.