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From: rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm,comp.unix.sysv286
Subject: Re: elm can't find vi
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.152724.23804@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US>
Date: 28 Mar 91 15:27:24 GMT
References: <1991Mar27.033728.21388@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Organization: Mt. Diablo Software Solutions
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engelsma@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Engelsma Jonathan) wrote:
>
>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.

You have one of those brain-damaged vi's that exits with non-zero when
no real error has occurred. Remedy: write a shell wrapper around vi that
always exits with 0 and use that as you editor in elm.

I understand this problem will be remedied in the next version of elm;
it will ignore the exit value of the invoked editor and only pronounce
failure if the exec fails.
-- 
Rob Bernardo					Mt. Diablo Software Solutions
email: rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US		phone: (415) 827-4301