[comp.mail.elm] possible elm bug ?

jms@infmx.UUCP (John Stephens) (10/04/89)

I am running elm 2.2.9 on a sun 3/280 under SunOS 3.5.  Periodically 
elm comes back with 'cannot invokke editor /usr/ucb/vi' after a reply
or forwarded message has been edited.  

The edits (which some time take quite a while to generate, the way we
type around here ;-) ), are lost.  I can't seem to track this problem to
any particualr type of message, recipient, or action.  Has anyone else
had this problem ?

Jack
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sfreed@gauss.unm.edu (Steve Freed) (10/10/89)

In article <2470@infmx.UUCP>, jms@infmx.UUCP (John Stephens) writes:
> I am running elm 2.2.9 on a sun 3/280 under SunOS 3.5.  Periodically 
> elm comes back with 'cannot invokke editor /usr/ucb/vi' after a reply
> or forwarded message has been edited.  
>  Has anyone else had this problem ?

Yes, same thing here on a Sun 3/160 SunOS 4.0.3

I just retrieve my letter from /tmp and go at it again. Hasn't ever 
happened twice in a row. I do not have a clue as to what is happening.



Steve.