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
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