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Article #3552Re: Elm 2.4PL20: Floating Point Exeption reading alias folder from cmd-line
From: S. Spenser Aden
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:46
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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Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!news.netmbx.de!mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE!math.fu-berlin.de!ira.uka.de!yale.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!ames!eos!aio!fudd.jsc.nasa.gov!spenser From: spenser@fudd.jsc.nasa.gov (S. Spenser Aden) Subject: Re: Elm 2.4PL20: Floating Point Exeption reading alias folder from cmd-line Message-ID: <1993Jan26.164609.27672@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> Sender: news@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (USENET News System) Organization: Flight Data and Evaluation Office References: <1k376fINN5oq@coli-gate.coli.uni-sb.de> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:46:09 GMT Lines: 42