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From: silvert%dalcs@math.waterloo.edu (Bill Silvert)
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Subject: Blank lines in mail file
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Date: Mon, 18-May-87 16:43:42 EDT
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Someone recently noticed a minor ELM problem that has been bothering me
too, namely that ELM cannot read a mail file if the top line is blank.
The fix looks pretty easy (test for a blank line, go on to the next if
the top line is blank), but I am a bit wary of making an off-the-wall
patch that might really start screwing up mail files.  Has anyone fixed
this?

A related problem is that when ELM rewrites the mail file, it unlinks it
(like using mv instead of cp to replace a linked file).  I have some of
my alternate mail files linked, so this is a pain.  Again, anyone
looking at this one?  I could probably fix it myself, but ELM is such a
big package that I worry about side effects every time I touch it.
-- 
Bill Silvert, Modelling/Statistics Group
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
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