Here's the change needed to make pine 3.91 read files successfully on 
MacBSD (and any other big-endian machine, I'd imagine).  Replace the
file .../pine3.91/pine/osdep/readfile with the following (and please
don't rag on me for the ugly looking c code).

/*----------------------------------------------------------------------
    Read whole file into memory

  Args: filename -- path name of file to read

  Result: Returns pointer to malloced memory with the contents of the file
          or NULL

This won't work very well if the file has NULLs in it and is mostly
intended for fairly small text files.
 ----*/
char *
read_file(filename)
    char *filename;
{
    int         fd;
    struct stat statbuf;
    char       *buf;
#ifdef __netbsd__
    long       *size_p;
#endif

    fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY);
    if(fd < 0)
      return((char *)NULL);

    fstat(fd, &statbuf);

    size_p = &statbuf.st_size;
#ifdef __netbsd__
#if BYTE_ORDER == BIG_ENDIAN
    size_p++;
#endif
    buf = fs_get(*size_p+1);
#else
    buf = fs_get(statbuf.st_size + 1);
#endif

    /*
     * On some systems might have to loop here, if one read isn't guaranteed
     * to get the whole thing.
     */
#ifdef __netbsd__
    if(read(fd, buf, *size_p+1) != *size_p) {
#else
    if(read(fd, buf, statbuf.st_size) != statbuf.st_size) {
#endif
        close(fd);
        return((char *)NULL);
    }
    close(fd);

/*  buf[statbuf.st_size]= '\0';		/* PRG */
    buf[*size_p]= '\0';			/* PRG */

    return(buf);
}




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