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From: okamoto@hpccc.HP.COM (Jeff Okamoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Elm and other mailers for Apollos
Message-ID: <7680001@hpccc.HP.COM>
Date: 17 May 89 21:55:51 GMT
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barriost@gtephx.UUCP (Tim Barrios) asks:

[ Questions about Elm ]:

Disclaimer: I am only an engineer within HP.  I do not support Elm.

First question: Which version of Elm did you install?  The latest
USENET version is 2.2, which Syd Weinstein et al are supporting.
If you have an earlier version (e.g., 1.5b, 1.7, 2.0, 2.01), then I'm
afraid you're pretty much on your own.  They are not supported by HP.

Second question: How well does your implementation of NFS (I assume
that's what you have?) support file locking?  Elm tries to use either
flock or lockf, plus creating a lock file.  Some versions of NFS
are not very robust w.r.t. file locking.

Please let me know if you have any more questions.

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