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From: weimer@garden.ssd.kodak.com (Gary Weimer (253-7796))
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Mailtool weirdness
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.155120.10864@ssd.kodak.com>
Date: 18 Apr 91 15:51:20 GMT
References: <1991Apr15.162329.8367@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
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In article <1991Apr15.162329.8367@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> you write:
|> 
|> When I try to open a mail file, and Mail File: is set to mbox, I get:
|> 
|> 	Cannot access file
|> 	'tty': Ambiguous./mbox
|> 	No such file or directory
|> 
|> notifier.  Does anybody know what's going on?

It looks like you are using ~/mbox. Somehow the ~ is evaluating to
'Ambiguous.' and hence it is searching for the file Ambiguous./mbox

Just a guess. You could try using the full path name to test this.

weimer@ssd.kodak.com ( Gary Weimer )