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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm,comp.unix.sysv286
Subject: Re: elm can't find vi
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.021339.17838@DSI.COM>
Date: 28 Mar 91 02:13:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: DSI.1991Mar28.021339.17838
References: <1991Mar27.033728.21388@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1991Mar27.150838.28634@utoday.com>
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Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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sean@utoday.com (Sean Fulton) writes:
>In article <1991Mar27.033728.21388@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> engelsma@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Engelsma Jonathan) writes:
>>
>>I recently got elm (2.3) running under Microport Unix SysV/AT (2.4).
>>Most of the time it works just fine.  However sometimes when I send
>>mail I get the error message "Can't invoke editor '/usr/bin/vi' for
>>composition".   Has anybody else experienced a problem like this?
>>Any suggestions?  It seems strange that sometimes I can send mail
>>with no problems, and other times this error occurs.
>>
>We have the same problem with ELM on SCO Unix 3.2.2 Help!
You obviously aren't up to date on the patches.  Long ago
we gave up on ever expecting to be able to believe the return
codes vi gives,  (VI is broken) and on the shell handling interrupts
correctly.

Current version is 2.3 PL11.
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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
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