Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!pacbell!pbhyf!rob
From: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: A difference under BSD vs SysV
Message-ID: <5082@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 21 Apr 89 04:59:23 GMT
References: <997@itivax.iti.org>
Reply-To: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <997@itivax.iti.org> scs@vax3.iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes:
+Circumtances: looking at a mailbox, some messages are deleted.  Give
+the 'q' command.  In .elm/elmrc, ask = OFF.
+
+Under 4.3 BSD, you are asked if the messages marked for deletion should
+be deleted.  Under 5.2 on a UNIX-PC, they are automaticly deleted.  ???

Despite what the subject line says, this is *not* a BSD vs SYSV difference.
Something is wrong on your UNIX-PC. Nothing should be automatically
deleted with the 'q' command. It sounds like something is awry and the
command is being treated as if a 'Q'. Are you ***sure*** you are using the
newly compiled elm2.2 and not an earlier version? (Listen, I do stoopid
things, too. :-) ).
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