esat..elsen@imec.UUCP (10/25/87)
Hi Netlanders , I would like to make a contribution to the recent discussion about editors being used to send mail. A remarkable problem exists when using LSE in VMSmail (by using '$ define mail$edit callable_lse). If by any chance your terminal type is set to 'unknown' the following happens : when having answered mail's 'subj:' question in response to a send request, mail JUST RETURNS WITH HIS 'MAIL >' PROMPT !! When I experienced this for the first time I first thought that my mail utility had gone 'completely crazy'. Afterwards I realized that my terminal was set to 'unknown' due to some 'accident' which is not relevant for this discussion. The problem here is that LSE's classical message '%TPU-E-NONANSICRT,SYS$INPUT must be an ANSI CRT' doesn't get through. Is this because mail started a subproces inorder to activate the editor ? Anyway I feel that somehow an error message should be generated maybe by VMS mail itself. I am running VMS4.5 and LSE V2.0 So Long, Marc Elsen IMEC V.Z.W. Kapeldreef 75 3030 HEVERLEE Belgium ...prlb2!imec!elsen Please assume appropriate disclaimers.