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From: steve@raspail.UUCP (Steve Schonberger)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Memory fault -- screen problem
Message-ID: <1034@raspail.UUCP>
Date: 12 Nov 88 19:24:35 GMT
References: <999@raspail.UUCP>
Organization: Control Data Corporation, Arden Hills, MN
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In article <999@raspail.UUCP>, I write:
> I ran into a rather obnoxious problem.  My terminal emulation at home is
> a vt52, which has no highlighting.  Thus, when I enter elm, as soon as
> it tries to write the highlight bar for the current message, I get an
> error.  It is Memory Fault, Segmentation Violation, or some such thing,
  [etc.]
> 
> My own work-around was to put "alias elm elm -a" into my login macro
> on my terminal program at home, so I can still use highlight at work.

I posted this without adequate experimentation, and I find that the "-a"
(force arrow mode) option does not work in the 2.1 I have (X-Mailer:
Elm [version 2.1 PL0]).  It uses the setting in the options file, with
no regard for the "-a" option.

I have a couple of work-arounds that I am thinking about, but haven't
decided which to use yet.  One is to put a hacked vt52 entry in my
termcap file, with bogus "so" and "se" entries.  The other is to set
arrow mode on and leave it that way, which works fine, but makes elm
look so bland on my fancy terminal at work.

Since I am apparently the only one griping about this problem, maybe
I will write a hack myself for it, time permitting.  I don't want to
spend my time on it though if someone else is working on something
that will cure this problem already.

 	Steve Schonberger
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