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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Form bug question
Message-ID: <1990Nov16.141601.28125@DSI.COM>
Date: 16 Nov 90 14:16:01 GMT
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Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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rayj@camco.Celestial.COM (Ray Jones) writes:
>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.
[...]
>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.

What is on that menu depends on your user-level setting.  Their
are many times within elm that not all the valid commands appear
on the menu.  And what does appear depends on the user-level
setting.  That is one of them.

Its a design feature, not a bug.
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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
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