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From: lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Ouch!  Bug in Elm Looses mailbox
Summary: What version?
Message-ID: <661@icus.islp.ny.us>
Date: 7 Apr 89 03:59:32 GMT
References: <439@wubios.wustl.edu>
Reply-To: lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano)
Distribution: usa
Organization: ICUS Software Systems, Islip, New York
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In article <439@wubios.wustl.edu> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes:
|>Ouch!  I just lost my entire incoming mailbox.  I was in elm, deleting
|>certain messages, when I decided to quit.  I pressed 'q' and I got this
|>message over-and-over:
|>
|>     ELM [seek] failed trying to read 779339 bytes into file
|>
|>When it finally exited, my entire spool file was gone!  I am extremely
|>upset about this.  Elm should be smart enough to leave a file alone when
|>it gets an error.
|>-David-
|>

Could you at least fill us in on WHAT VERSION you are running?  I'm running
the new Elm2.2, I would like to know which one this affects.  Also did
you check to see if /tmp/mbox.user was still there?

							-Lenny
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