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Re: Elm 2.4PL20: Floating Point Exeption reading alias folder from cmd-line

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From: S. Spenser Aden
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:46
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In article <1k376fINN5oq@coli-gate.coli.uni-sb.de> fuenf@aldebaran.cs.uni-sb.de (Stefan Fuenfrocken) writes:
>
>i just installed elm 2.4 PL20, upgrading from elm 2.3PL11.
>Environment: SunOS4.1.1, Sun SparkStation II
>
>There were two things:
>
>1) elm refuses to compile with:
>        
>     redeclaration of utimbuf in leavembox.c
>  
>  i had to '#define UTIMBUF' in config.h
>  So the Configure-script doesn't seem correctly set up the configuration file.

i had this same problem with my SPARC 2 running 4.1.2. While There's nothing
really wrong with what you did, you might try changing d_utimbuf to 'define'
in the config.sh instead, and then re-running that.

>  i tryed to read from a folder ('abc' in maildirectory) for alias 'xyz' from cmd-line
>  with:
>     elm -f @xyz
>  which gave me:
>
>
>    Floating Point Exception signal!
>
>
>    Emergency exit taken! All temp files intact!
>
>  If i try to read the folder with the correct foldername:
>    elm -f =abc
>  everything is fine.

I haven't tried this.  Will check it out.

-Spenser

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Subject: Re: Elm 2.4PL20: Floating Point Exeption reading alias folder from cmd-line
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