Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!csus.edu!ucdavis!csusac!cindy!petunia!zeus!library.calpoly.edu!barb From: barb@library.calpoly.edu (Barbara Nash) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: unable to invoke "/usr/ucb/vi" for composition??? Keywords: nasty problem Message-ID: <1991Jun15.155601.131246@zeus.calpoly.edu> Date: 15 Jun 91 15:56:01 GMT Sender: news@zeus.calpoly.edu Organization: Unix Systems Support - Kennedy Library, Cal Poly SLO Lines: 27 kevinf@informix.com (Kevin Franden) elucidates: > >There is a nasty problem in the couple of versions of Elm I have >(2.2.16 and a beta of 2.3 someone scrounged from somewhere); >occasionally, a user will get: > > Warning: can't invoke "/usr/ucb/vi" for composition > >From which Elm promptly forgets the users (almost always) long mail that >he/she was typing in. I'm sure others have seen this as well. We had a similar problem here, but only with certian users' accounts. Unfortunately, I can't give you a solution, since the problem went away when we installed 2.3.11. >Is this fixed? Can it be fixed? Will Magic Johnson retire? How can I >get the "latest and greatest" of ELm? What IS the latest and greatest of >Elm? Dunno, yes (of course! =-) ), yes, ask elm@dsinc, 2.3.11 as far as I know. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Barbara Nash, Asst. System Administator barb@library.calpoly.edu Kennedy Library Computer Systems Support bnash@polyslo.calpoly.edu #include polyslo!holodec!barb