convtoshortdate

This is driving me nuts. I've just taken this job where we had a very old version of hypermail running on an Irix5.3 machine. It wasn't perfect, but it was working, and i figured i'd deall with other problems -- like disk space usage.

The hypermail executable resides in /usr/local/bin and I had moved /usr/local/bin to another hard drive and linked it back in the heirarchy. Everything else seemed quite happy but hypermail started crashing. OK, fine, I moved it back. Still crashing. I ran a debugger on the core dump.

(dbx) run -pui -d test </root/demo

Process 20310 (hypermail) started
Reading old headers... 0 articles.
Reading new header...
Process 20310 (hypermail) stopped on signal SIGSEGV: Segmentation violation (default) [convtoshortdate:29 +0x6c,0x40b558]   29 for (i = 0; !(c == (months[i])[0] && d == (months[i])[1] &&

Bah. Apparently an internal problem. I recompiled. Same problem. I decided to download the new version. Compiled. Same problem:

 /usr/local/bin/hypermail -pui -d /var/www/htdocs/listarchives/projects/library < /root/demo Reading old headers... 2 articles.
Reading new header...
Date: []
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
[root][/root] %> dbx /usr/local/bin/hypermail core dbx version 3.19 Nov 3 1994 19:59:46
Core from signal SIGSEGV: Segmentation violation
(dbx) run -pui -d test </root/demo

Process 22272 (hypermail) started
Creating directory "test", mode 777.
Reading old headers... 0 articles.
Reading new header...
Process 22272 (hypermail) stopped on signal SIGSEGV: Segmentation violation (default) [convtoshortdate:1 +0x140,0x40bea0]

         Source (of date.c) not available for Process 22272

Any guesses? I've only been on this list for a week or so -- I hope this is an appropriate forum.

Cheers,

judith bush

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