From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 10 18:35:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA09220 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 18:35:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ha1.rdc1.pa.home.com (ha1.rdc1.pa.home.com [24.2.5.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA09215 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 18:35:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nellie@home.com) Received: from cc219337-a.lwmrn1.pa.home.com ([24.3.111.2]) by ha1.rdc1.pa.home.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA5262; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 18:34:54 -0700 Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 21:30:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Wu-Tang Forever X-Sender: nellie@cc219337-a.lwmrn1.pa.home.com To: "Andrew E. Stevens" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pico bug? In-Reply-To: <35CF8C76.9125CB64@log.on.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had the same problem, it is a pine package bug... go cvsup /usr/ports and make clean pine4 and remake it :) On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Andrew E. Stevens wrote: > Greetings: > > I have been using FreeBSD 2.1.7 for nearly a year and a half, without > any problems related to pico or text editors in general. However, I > recently did a full reinstall of freebsd over FTP, and am now running > 2.2.7. Ever since the upgrade, pico has been behaving rather oddly; > inserting uppercase U's in the top line of the file I am editing (see > example below). > > Has anyone heard of this happening? The number of U's vary from 3 or > 4, right up to 50 or so. It seems the more I edit, the more U's are > written to the top of the file. The U's are not visible immediately > after I save; I have to exit, and re-view (using cat, pico, or another > text editor.). The U's can be removed by editing them out, and don't > seem to re-appear until some other part of the file is edited. > > I checked the bug reports but didn't see anything listed on this > matter. Is there something wrong with my configuration, or should I be > filling out a bug report? Any thoughts are greatly appreciated. > > Regards, > > > Andrew Stevens. > > Example (after I write, exit pico, and cat the file) using the first two > lines of my afterstep configuration file. > > - Note that the original line is still intact, just with a ton of U's in > front of it. > > UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU > UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU > UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU# > 03/08/97 sample.steprc v2.0 fsf ffejes@midway.uchicago.edu > ############################################ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message