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From: krowitz@mit-kermit.UUCP (David Krowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Help with the CKMAIL program
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Date: Thu, 14-May-87 12:00:32 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 14 12:00:32 1987
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Has anyone manage to fix up the CKMAIL program (distributed by
Scott Turner of UCLA) to work correctly under SR9.5/SR9.5.1?

If I don't have any mail waiting for me when I run the program
it bombs out with the message:

Cannot status /usr/spool/mail/krowitz -- quiting

rather than returning with the simple 'no mail' message. This
is a problem if you want to run CKMAIL as a background process
which periodically checks for the arrival of new mail, since
the process dies unless you already have mail waiting for you,
and will die just as soon as you've read and deleted your mail.

Has anyone else encountered this problem?


                                   -- David Krowitz

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