mo@gizmo.bellcore.com (Michael O'Dell) (06/24/91)
Repl and Forw have started doing this intermittently, and boy, nothing undermines the faith in a user community faster than mail programs that don't work. So the message is a bit more dour than is needed, because the draft is still usually there, but WHAT'S HAPPENING???? It was working just fine until a few weeks ago. Anyone else seen this happen??? version: MH 6.7.1 #1[UCI] (gizmo) of Mon Jun 17 15:10:49 EDT 1991 options: [BSD42] [BSD43] [SUN40] [TYPESIG=void] [DBM] [BIND] [DUMB] [RPATHS] [MHE] [MHRC] [NTOHLSWAP] [OVERHEAD] [SBACKUP='"#"'] [MSGPROT='"0600"'] [ZONEINFO] [SENDMTS] [SMTP] [POP] [BPOP] [NNTP] -Mike mo@bellcore.com
sean@dmrinc.com (Sean Baker) (06/24/91)
I also get this occasionally. Although in my case, the draft usually IS removed. I even tried running a shell script that calls vi, then calls "exit 0", but I was still getting the problem (???). I was going to hack the whatnowsbr.c file, but someone mentioned that this would be fixed in the next relase (6.7.2?). My patience ran out, so I hacked away. It's no big deal, I just ifdef'd out the part that removes the file. If you're interested, I could send you the diffs (trivial). Sean. ======================================= Sean Baker <sean@dmrinc.com> Data Management Resources 20725 South Western Avenue, Suite 100 Torrance, CA 90501 USA (213)618-9677 Repl and Forw have started doing this intermittently, and boy, nothing undermines the faith in a user community faster than mail programs that don't work. So the message is a bit more dour than is needed, because the draft is still usually there, but WHAT'S HAPPENING???? It was working just fine until a few weeks ago. Anyone else seen this happen??? version: MH 6.7.1 #1[UCI] (gizmo) of Mon Jun 17 15:10:49 EDT 1991 options: [BSD42] [BSD43] [SUN40] [TYPESIG=void] [DBM] [BIND] [DUMB] [RPATHS] [MHE] [MHRC] [NTOHLSWAP] [OVERHEAD] [SBACKUP='"#"'] [MSGPROT='"0600"'] [ZONEINFO] [SENDMTS] [SMTP] [POP] [BPOP] [NNTP] -Mike mo@bellcore.com
jromine@yoyodyne.ics.uci.edu (John Romine) (06/25/91)
mo@bellcore.com (Michael O'Dell) writes: >Repl and Forw have started doing ["Problems with edit - draft >removed"] intermittently, and boy, nothing undermines the faith in a >user community faster than mail programs that don't work. So the >message is a bit more dour than is needed, because the draft is still >usually there, but WHAT'S HAPPENING???? If your users are using an AT&T version of "vi", it's exiting with non-zero status (supposedly a count of the "errors" during the edit). Move "vi" to "broken_vi" and put it its place: #! /bin/sh /usr/ucb/vi $* exit 0 Then complain to your vendor that "vi" is broken, and they should fix it. -- John Romine