Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!uvm-gen!banzai!jay From: jay@banzai.PCC.COM (Jay Schuster) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Bug with Shell escapes in Elm Keywords: shell umask Message-ID: <1989Oct3.123423.11045@banzai.PCC.COM> Date: 3 Oct 89 12:34:23 GMT Organization: The People's Computer Company, Williston, VT Lines: 9 This is a problem with Elm PL10, and patch 11 doesn't look like it fixes it. When you shell escape out of Elm (for us lowlies without job control), your umask is set to 077! This really messes me up if a mail message makes me bang out and do some work. -- Jay Schuster uunet!uvm-gen!banzai!jay, attmail!banzai!jay The People's Computer Company `Revolutionary Programming'