[comp.mail.elm] Problem with Elm

mauvais@psuorpn.cc.pdx.edu (Paul Mauvais) (01/10/91)

A number of our users have come to me with a problem with the (s)ave function
with Elm V2.3 PL9 (running on a Sequent S81, DYNIX 3.0.17.11).

It seems that if the header is more than a simple from/to, then when you
hit the s key to save, it gives you a segmentation violation and exits.

There are a couple headers/messages that it does this on every time.
One is included at the bottom of this letter.

Anyone else run into this problem?

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mascio@convex.COM (John R.S. Mascio) (01/10/91)

In article <1103@pdxgate.UUCP> mauvais@psuorpn.cc.pdx.edu (Paul Mauvais) writes:
>
>A number of our users have come to me with a problem with the (s)ave function
>with Elm V2.3 PL9 (running on a Sequent S81, DYNIX 3.0.17.11).
>
>It seems that if the header is more than a simple from/to, then when you
>hit the s key to save, it gives you a segmentation violation and exits.
>
>There are a couple headers/messages that it does this on every time.
>One is included at the bottom of this letter.
>
>Anyone else run into this problem?

I think this is the same error my supervisor is running into.  I'm
trying to get more info myself.  We are using Elm V2.3 PL9 on a Convex
C-1, Convex UNIX 8.1.  If I come up with anything illuminating, I'll
post it.