dave@oldcolo.UUCP (Dave Hughes) (08/27/89)
Is there any way to automatically get an editor (such as vi
or an alternate) to come up when one calls for the mail utility
in the normal release for SCO Xenix 396? I know the user can do
an escape after 'mail username' is called by the user, but that
assumes that the general user is technoid enough to call that. On
my old Unix Sys V release I could have an editor appear by
default.
Which raises the further question - is the SCO 386 mailer
flakey? (2.2.1). When one calls 'mail' and a dozen pieces show
up, if you read, then while in a piece command 'delete', hit
return, it always skips and jumps over the next numbered piece.
Always. Is this fixed in 2.3 or later?
My users as we moved from Sys V 3.2 to Xenix 386 complain
about the mailer. And *really* go bananas when non-ascii chars
creep in and they get octal numbers in their mail text \177.
Everytime I raise this with system administrators they
immediately tell me to dump SCO's release mailer and get Elm or
something better. That the release mailer is indeed flakey and
brain-damaged. I don't mind doing that in order to get more
advanced features, but just to get past things that ought to work
better???