mlmiller@APPLE.COM (Mark Miller) (11/16/88)
Please forgive me if I have send this to the wrong mailbox. We are using GNUEMACS 18.48.2 under 4.3bsd #17, at apple on a Vax. M-x rmail does not work correctly, giving the message "movemail: error creating lock file". I asked our system administrators about this, and they said that we use a different (newer?) scheme for preventing simultaneous access to the mailbox file (eg, /usr/spool/mail/mlmiller) than is used in GNUEMACS. They said that we have (or can get?) sources and invited me to fix and rebuild. (I think most people use the unix "mail" command.) But, I'm not really in a position (in terms of familiarity with the sources, unix expertise, or time) to do this. Is there a version we could FTP that would work correctly? Perhaps we just have an old copy of gnuemacs or built it with the wrong switches or something? Thanks, Mark (Mark Miller of Apple, a hardcore Emacs fanatic from the days of ITS TECO...)