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From: rjg@sialis.mn.org (Robert J. Granvin)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: ELM: Want to remove mail file when done: How?
Keywords: elm mail
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Date: 11 Mar 89 16:40:56 GMT
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>+ AT&T 3b1, 3.0 OS.
>+ To get rid of the icon, the mail file has to dissappear -- not just become
>+ zero lenght. 
 
>2. On my 3b1 system (3.5 with the improved wmgr from THE STORE), the icon DOES
>   disappear a couple of seconds after ELM terminates, even though the
>   mail file is only zeroed, not deleted.

>   Does anyone know definitively if 3.5 and 3.51 are different in this regard,
>   or where this is defined/explained in the manuals?

3.5 and 3.51 both delete the mail icon when the mail file either gets
deleted or goes to zero length.



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