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From: dorl@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Michael (NMI) Dorl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: DEC Mail Utility Madness
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Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 16:30:02 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 16 16:30:02 1987
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We have several users who have choosen to use a different editor
to compose their mail messages using the MAIL$EDIT logical name
feature in DEC's Mail utility as explained in section 3.1 of the
'Mail Utility Reference Manual'.

This all worked fine until one of them tried to read a message
with the READ/EDIT, NEXT/EDIT, FIRST/EDIT, or LAST/EDIT commands.
Mail produces the following error messages when one has defined
MAIL$EDIT and attempts to use these commands.

 %MAIL-E-NOTCALEDT, this command procedure cannot be executed.
         MAIL$EDIT does not specify a callable editor.

Does anyone have any insight into this?  How would one define
MAIL$EDIT so that the whatever/EDIT commands would work?