ctw%CNS.UMIST.AC.UK@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Colin Walls) (12/23/88)
We have just mounted Elm 2.1 on our 3/280 without too many problems. We did not have the initial release, we took it at patch level 1. Apart from having to modify the ttymode clear bits to remove CRMOD everything seems to work well. Colin Walls Janet: Colin@uk.ac.umist DARPA: Colin@umist.ac.uk Uucp: ukc!umist.ac.uk!Colin Tel: 061-236-3311 x 2626 International: +44-61-236-3311 x 2626
prc@uunet.uu.net (Robert Claeson) (12/30/88)
david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes: > We have installed the 'elm' mail package on our Sun 3/260 running SunOS > 4.0. It works, but we have had a number of irritating quirks. For > instance, when we try to run it on a vt52 terminal, we get this message: > > Emergency Exit taken! All temp files intact! > Seqment Violation signal! I've seen that before in all ELM's from 1.5 up to the current 2.1 PL1, and on other UNIX'es than SunOS as well. It appears that if ELM can't find all terminal attributes it needs, then it spits out this message and terminates (a little drastic, though). For example, I get this message if I use TERM=ansi (no attributes, for example), but if I set TERM to vt100, ELM works nicely. [[ Sounds to me like someone didn't check to see if termcap's tgetstr returned NULL! --wnl ]] -- Robert Claeson, ERBE DATA AB, P.O. Box 77, S-175 22 Jarfalla, Sweden "No problems." -- Alf Tel: +46 758-202 50 EUnet: rclaeson@ERBE.SE uucp: uunet!erbe.se!rclaeson Fax: +46 758-197 20 Internet: rclaeson@ERBE.SE BITNET: rclaeson@ERBE.SE
mark@uunet.uu.net (Mark Lawrence) (12/31/88)
david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) wrote: } We have installed the 'elm' mail package on our Sun 3/260 running SunOS } 4.0....when we try to run it on a vt52 terminal, we get this message: } } Emergency Exit taken! All temp files intact! } Seqment Violation signal! Try defining so and se in your termcap (thus so=:se=:). If you want to see what elm is trying to standout you can so={:se=}:. Elm seems to want to puke if these are not defined for a terminal. Mark
syd@pacbell.pacbell.com (Syd Weinstein) (01/07/89)
mcvax!maxim.ERBE.SE!prc@uunet.uu.net (Robert Claeson) writes: :david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes: :> We have installed the 'elm' mail package on our Sun 3/260 running SunOS :> 4.0. It works, but we have had a number of irritating quirks. For :> instance, when we try to run it on a vt52 terminal, we get this message: :> :> Emergency Exit taken! All temp files intact! :> Seqment Violation signal! : :I've seen that before in all ELM's from 1.5 up to the current 2.1 PL1, and :on other UNIX'es than SunOS as well. It appears that if ELM can't find all :terminal attributes it needs, then it spits out this message and :terminates... :[[ Sounds to me like someone didn't check to see if termcap's tgetstr :returned NULL! --wnl ]] Ok world, as the Elm coordinator, let me set a few things straight. 1. Elm 2.1 PL1 is simply a get it out version of V2. Yes, your editor is right, Dave never checked the reply from tgetstr. It has long since been fixed for the next version (2.2) which will be out end of 1st quarter 89. 2. Elm is controlled from a Sun 386i running 4.0 and now 4.0.1 so we usually get the Sun specific stuff close to right, albiet sometimes it takes beating me over the head to under stand the Sun, I am new to the Sun world, cut my Unix teeth on V6 and traveled the AT&T route on ports from there. The Sun is my first time with a BSD version. 3. Please send all problem reports, corrections, suggestions to me. If the Elm group doesn't hear about it, we cannot fix it. I don't always respond to all my mail, but I do try to send ack's to messages. 4. Does this belong in comp.sys.sun or comp.mail.elm? The problems might belong to more than Sun versions. (And in this case it does.) Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator Datacomp Systems, Inc. Voice: (215) 947-9900 {allegra,bellcore,bpa,vu-vlsi}!dsinc!syd FAX: (215) 938-0235