klg@flash.UUCP (Kevin L. Gross) (10/19/89)
Hello, I was wondering whether anyone could help me solve a problem I'm having with Elm 2.2 running on a Sequent Symmetry S27 running Dynix V3.0.12. Just after leaving the editor (vi), one of my users attempts to change the Cc: and/or Bcc: fields using 'edit (h)eaders' and gets the following error: --> Get-token calls nested greater than 20 deep! --> Emergency exit taken! --> All temp files intact! Then elm exits and the user has to remove his /tmp/mbox.user file before he can use elm. Unfortunately, he also loses the message he just wrote. This doesn't happen when he modifies the Subject: field using the same procedure. This error just started appearing recently after he'd been away for a few days. It never happened before, it doesn't happen to anyone else and I have at least 50 people using elm. What gives? -- Thanks, -Kevin
syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) (10/20/89)
klg@flash.UUCP (Kevin L. Gross) writes: >Just after leaving the editor (vi), one of my users attempts to >change the Cc: and/or Bcc: fields using 'edit (h)eaders' and gets >the following error: >--> Get-token calls nested greater than 20 deep! >--> Emergency exit taken! >--> All temp files intact! >What gives? Sounds like that user has an alias file with a loop in it. Ie: name1 = some string = name2 name2 = some string = name1 (now, thats a simple one, the loop could be longer, or part of a group alias, etc.) Anyway, the expansion recurses beyond a built in limit and Elm error exits. Thats just one likely item. Anybody else got any others? -- ===================================================================== Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator Datacomp Systems, Inc. Voice: (215) 947-9900 syd@DSI.COM or {bpa,vu-vlsi}!dsinc!syd FAX: (215) 938-0235