[comp.os.vms] VMS MAIL Bug Uncovered

zar@XHMEIA.CALTECH.EDU (07/16/87)

Try the following:
	1) Send a message to yourself.
	2) file it in a new folder
	3) read it in the new folder
	4) delete/all the new folder
	5) send a message to yourself
After you're finished, Mail will say "hit return for next message" or
similiar. After typing return, it accvios and returns to dcl. Yum

MACPHEDR@SASK.BITNET (Ian J. MacPhedran, Eng. Applications, DCS) (07/22/87)

!zar@xhmeia.caltech.edu comments:
!    Try the following:
!        1) Send a message to yourself.
!        2) file it in a new folder
!        3) read it in the new folder
!        4) delete/all the new folder
!        5) send a message to yourself
!    After you're finished, Mail will say "hit return for next message" or
!    similiar. After typing return, it accvios and returns to dcl. Yum
>to which LEICHTER-JERRY@YALE.ARPA replies:
>I just tried exactly this sequence (on a VMS V4.5 system) and it worked just
>fine - no ACCVIO, nothing out of the ordinary.  Not-so-Yum here, guy!

I have experienced this ACCVIO problem in the past on two or three
occasions. However, it was never reproduceable, and did not affect
my mail messages, and occured so rarely that I did not worry about
it. It usually happened when system response was slow, and when I
was using command line recall inside MAIL. (VMS version 4.5)

(BTW, I am unable to replicate the described problem with new folders.)

However, try this:

1) Go into EDT line mode
2) Do a HELP DEF KEY *

Somewhat simple (investigation shows that it is caused by a blank
line in the EDT help file), but spectacular.
Ian.