john@beaudin.UUCP (John Beaudin) (04/08/90)
syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) writes: >vlr@dynsim1.UUCP (Vic Rice) writes: >>Also, Elm is complaining it can not read my current mail files >>because they are corrupted. Examining these files with vi shows the >>following string encasing each msg: "^A^A^A^A". If I remove this >>string from the first line of each mail file, Elm will load it. My >>question is where is this string of ^A's coming from ? >Once again, folks, MMDF is a MTA that uses a different mailbox format. >Elm will support MMDF in 2.3, but not in 2.2. All you can do is wait >for 2.3. >-- >===================================================================== >Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator >Datacomp Systems, Inc. Voice: (215) 947-9900 >syd@DSI.COM or bpa!dsinc!syd FAX: (215) 938-0235 here is what I use in the meantime (I personally call this script 'm' (csh)): ------ cut here ----- # if -z /usr/spool/mail/$LOGNAME then elm else cd /usr/spool/mail sed <$LOGNAME 's///g' >sedmail$LOGNAME mv sedmail$LOGNAME $LOGNAME elm -z endif ----- end of cutting ---- The only inconvenience I experience is when elm does a resynchronization. No problem, just restart the above script. It's worth it to use elm.
john@beaudin.UUCP (John Beaudin) (04/09/90)
Please note that the 'fix' I included in a very recent posting actually had 4 ^A's in the search portion of the sed substitute command. You'd never know it from using a news reader to view it however. I.e. s/^a^a^a^a// Sorry for any confusion.