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From: dewey@sequoia.UUCP (Dewey Henize)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm,comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Losing editted messages with elm
Message-ID: <8154@sequoia.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 90 16:38:42 GMT
Reply-To: dewey@sequoia.UUCP (Dewey Henize)
Followup-To: comp.mail.elm
Organization: Home for Recalcitrant Hackers
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We are on a Sequent S81, Dynix 3.0.12 running Elm at PL16 (current I believe),
and have occasionally run into the following maddening problem:

A user goes into elm and prepares to send a message.  After entering address,
etc, they go into entry mode with vi and compose the message, taking anywhere
from less than a minute to quite long periods.

After the message is composed, the user exits vi with either :wq or ZZ and
gets the message "can't invoke editor".  Checking in the elm source, it 
appears we are getting back a non-zero code from the attempt to invoke vi,
yet obviously it WAS invoked...

We don't have source to vi, of course.  The errno value is 1 in all cases
though while the return value is sometimes 1 and sometimes 3.

Ideas?  Suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Dewey
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