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From: david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Ouch!  Bug in Elm Looses mailbox
Message-ID: <441@wubios.wustl.edu>
Date: 9 Apr 89 22:12:42 GMT
References: <439@wubios.wustl.edu> <661@icus.islp.ny.us>
Reply-To: david@wubios.UUCP (David J. Camp)
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In article <661@icus.islp.ny.us> lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
:>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?


Sorry, it was 2.1 PL1 with the Linefeed Patch.  /tmp/mbox.user was
definitely gone.  How can I get version 2.2?
-David-

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