jdpeek@RODAN.ACS.SYR.EDU (Jerry Peek) (08/30/90)
Has anyone else gotten strange draft pathnames from the 6.7 version of 'repl'?
Here's an example: I start 'repl', type in some text with 'prompter',
then hit Ctrl-d and get to the 'What now?' prompt. I type 'e vi' to start
the vi editor on my draft. But the pathname passed to 'vi' is just garbage,
like this:
w? n. Hit <CR> for help.ts/10
The pathname always starts with 'w?'. But the characters after that can vary.
Usually, the end of the pathname (the message number) ends with the draft
number -- that filename, for instance, was from message 10. In this
particular case, I stopped the editor and made a new reply. This happened:
What now? e echo
w? /acs/jdpeek/.Mail/drafts/12
What now? q d
whatnow: unable to unlink w? /acs/jdpeek/.Mail/drafts/12: No such
file or directory
But the draft file *does* exist in my draft folder, and it contains the
text I typed from 'prompter'. This makes me think that the brain damage
might be in 'repl' and/or its built-in version of 'whatnow'.
I haven't changed my .mh_profile or setup in months. (We just started using
6.7 on a new Sun 4/490; this never happened in 6.6, on several architectures.)
I'm so swamped with work these days that there's no way I can look into the
code now. Has anyone seen anything like this? Our configuration is:
version: MH 6.7 #1[UCI] (eeyore.cns.syr.edu) of Wed Aug 22 13:23:31 EDT 1990
options: [BIND] [BSD42] [BSD43] [DUMB] [FOLDPROT='"0700"'] [MHRC]
[MSGPROT='"0600"'] [RPATHS] [SUN40] [TYPESIG='void'] [ZONEINFO]
[SENDMTS] [SMTP] [POP]
Thanks.
--Jerry Peek; Syracuse University Academic Computing Services; Syracuse, NY
jdpeek@rodan.acs.syr.edu, JDPEEK@SUNRISE.BITNET +1 315 443-3995