david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) (04/06/89)
Ouch! I just lost my entire incoming mailbox. I was in elm, deleting
certain messages, when I decided to quit. I pressed 'q' and I got this
message over-and-over:
ELM [seek] failed trying to read 779339 bytes into file
When it finally exited, my entire spool file was gone! I am extremely
upset about this. Elm should be smart enough to leave a file alone when
it gets an error.
-David-
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Washington University Medical School Saint Louis, MO 63110lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) (04/07/89)
In article <439@wubios.wustl.edu> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes: |>Ouch! I just lost my entire incoming mailbox. I was in elm, deleting |>certain messages, when I decided to quit. I pressed 'q' and I got this |>message over-and-over: |> |> ELM [seek] failed trying to read 779339 bytes into file |> |>When it finally exited, my entire spool file was gone! I am extremely |>upset about this. Elm should be smart enough to leave a file alone when |>it gets an error. |>-David- |> Could you at least fill us in on WHAT VERSION you are running? I'm running the new Elm2.2, I would like to know which one this affects. Also did you check to see if /tmp/mbox.user was still there? -Lenny -- Lenny Tropiano ICUS Software Systems [w] +1 (516) 582-5525 lenny@icus.islp.ny.us Telex; 154232428 ICUS [h] +1 (516) 968-8576 {talcott,decuac,boulder,hombre,pacbell,sbcs}!icus!lenny attmail!icus!lenny ICUS Software Systems -- PO Box 1; Islip Terrace, NY 11752
david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) (04/10/89)
In article <661@icus.islp.ny.us> lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) writes: :>In article <439@wubios.wustl.edu> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes: :>|>Ouch! I just lost my entire incoming mailbox. I was in elm, deleting :>|>certain messages, when I decided to quit. I pressed 'q' and I got this :>|>message over-and-over: :>|> :>|> ELM [seek] failed trying to read 779339 bytes into file :>|> :>|>When it finally exited, my entire spool file was gone! I am extremely :>|>upset about this. Elm should be smart enough to leave a file alone when :>|>it gets an error. :>|>-David- :>|> :> :>Could you at least fill us in on WHAT VERSION you are running? I'm running :>the new Elm2.2, I would like to know which one this affects. Also did :>you check to see if /tmp/mbox.user was still there? Sorry, it was 2.1 PL1 with the Linefeed Patch. /tmp/mbox.user was definitely gone. How can I get version 2.2? -David- -- Bitnet: david@wubios.wustl ^ Mr. David J. Camp Internet: david%wubios@wucs1.wustl.edu < * > Box 8067, Biostatistics uucp: uunet!wucs1!wubios!david v 660 South Euclid Washington University Medical School Saint Louis, MO 63110