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From: pierrot@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Tatjana Heuser)
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Subject: Re: ELM trashing current folder?
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Date: 7 Nov 90 21:43:48 GMT
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tdd@convex.cl.msu.edu (Thomas D. Davis) writes:

>Twice now I've had my inbox truncated by ELM. [..]
Hmmm, happend to me once.
I rebuild elm 2.3 on pl.6, still having an incarnation of pl5 running :-)
guess what happened.... right. That Sparc I was sitting on meanwhile had swapped
my old elm out. When I returned to the window and terminated elm using "q"
obviously it had to be swapped in... As the binaries didn't quite match now
it exitet with a big bang taking my mail folder with it :-(
Now I look for what I'm compiliing :-)
So, the cases are rather different, but of the users I know to use sunview &
elm nobody ever seemed to have your problems. 
I didn't try it yet, but sure you can find out whether elm truncates your
mailbox on certain signls. Just build a sample folder to thrash run elm
and send it the signals you think to be at fault. If then your folder
is still intact it rather wasn't elm.
-ciaoens,
	Tatjana
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