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From: davis@rm1.UUCP (Gary A. Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm destroys the mailbox if filesystem is out of space.
Message-ID: <182@rm1.UUCP>
Date: 7 Nov 89 16:43:33 GMT
References: <1195@radig.uucp>
Organization: Racal-Milgo, Sunrise, FL
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From article <1195@radig.uucp>, by peter@radig.uucp (Peter Radig):
> Today I invoked Elm 2.2.13 to read my mailbox containing about 45 messages.
> But what I didn't know this time that my root filesystem (which has also the
> /usr-filesystem) was full or nearly full (about 20 blocks free).
> 
> While trying to read the mail I got the message "premature end of file". I
> quitted Elm and now all the messages were gone...


I had the same problem last week with PL10!

Gary
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  Gary A. Davis
  Racal-Milgo, P.O. Box 407044, Fort Lauderdale, Fl 33340, (305) 476-4393

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