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From: joe@bram.UUCP (Joe Saladino)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Trouble with elm and vi - error after edit
Message-ID: <1990Nov30.185250.5202@bram.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 90 18:52:50 GMT
References: <1990Nov30.183853.5041@bram.UUCP>
Organization: BRAM Corporation
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joe@bram.UUCP (Joe Saladino) writes:

:I am having trouble with elm from time to time with the following error.

:Can't invoke editor /usr/bin/vi for composition.

:This doesn't make sense since it works most of the time and once in a
:while it bombs.

:Anyone out there having the same problem?

Found the trouble.  /usr/tmp set rwxrwxrwt and elm has s bit set so
the tmp file in /usr/tmp was not accessable.  something like that.
I changed tmpdir to /tmp and it works fine.


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