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From: drd!mark@uunet.uu.net (Mark Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Elm on SunOS 4.0
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Date: 30 Dec 88 22:43:49 GMT
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david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) wrote:
} We have installed the 'elm' mail package on our Sun 3/260 running SunOS
} 4.0....when we try to run it on a vt52 terminal, we get this message:
} 
} Emergency Exit taken!  All temp files intact!
} Seqment Violation signal!

Try defining so and se in your termcap (thus so=:se=:).  If you want to
see what elm is trying to standout you can so={:se=}:.  Elm seems to want
to puke if these are not defined for a terminal.

Mark