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From: rayj@camco.Celestial.COM (Ray Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Form bug question
Message-ID: <254@camco.Celestial.COM>
Date: 15 Nov 90 19:47:05 GMT
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Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
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I finally figured out how to use the forms function of elm.
There is a bug in elm that causes the system not to display the menu
at the proper time, but if the response is given anyway the function
does work.

If you set "forms = ON" in the elmrc file and generate a message to
someone who also has "forms = ON" and include the forms format
i.e.
Date:       < note spaces
Time:              <spaces

When you close the file and are given the choices
e)dit message, edit h)eaders, s)end it, or f)orget it.
for disposition of the message, respond with "m" and only then respond
with "s" to send the form.  The "m" response (make form) SHOULD be
on that menu line but is not.
The receipiant will see "NF" on the incomming mail (New Form) and when
they give "r" (respond) each field will come to the screen, one at a
time, to be filled in.

Question: Is this a common bug or is it perculiar to my
implementation?   What is the fix?

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