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From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: elm's behavior is a function of the uid ???
Message-ID: <1991Feb07.054322.24820@jpradley.jpr.com>
Date: 7 Feb 91 05:43:22 GMT
Reply-To: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Organization: NYC Public Unix
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I am calling into my SCO UNIX 3.2 2 system. Either over a Trailblazer at PEP
speeds, or over a Hayes-type at 2400, and either way, I get this problemr:

Logged in as 'jpr', an average non-privileged user, I have no problem using elm
to read mail.

Logged in as 'root', or logged in as 'jpr' and doing an 'su' to 'root', elm
fails, in that the bottom part of elm's screen, with the prompts & such, comes
out at the top of my screen, and I do not see the list of messages at all.

Same value of TERM. Less, more, vi, and other screen-oriented programs work the
same for either uid.


How could elm's behavior vis-a-vis screen functions be affected by the uid?

 Jean-Pierre Radley   NYC Public Unix   jpr@jpradley.jpr.com   CIS: 72160,1341