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- From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
- Subject: Re: The Problem with UNIX
- Message-ID: <BxvxEG.Ixv@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- References: <BxKM7p.724@chinet.chi.il.us> <BxpwnM.72o@chinet.chi.il.us> <1992Nov17.021538.25729@mole-end.matawan.nj.us>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:01:27 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <1992Nov17.021538.25729@mole-end.matawan.nj.us> mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us writes:
- >> Do yourself a favor and compile ELM.
- >
- >This user says `bletch!' I've got ELM. It threw away a valuable piece of
- >mail on me because the mail included another mail header.
-
- This is fixed in 2.4 if you tell it your mailer uses the Content-Length:
- headers. It also won't blow up when the mail contains null characters
- now.
-
- >Right now I have
- >a non-elm mailbox with a message in it that ELM will present out of order.
-
- What is your sort order? Set it to 'reverse mailbox' if you want the
- stock mail order (and then it doesn't depend on the mailer getting the
- date format right either).
-
- >ELM's handling of the cursor keys is just plain wrong. ... ... ...
- >What? It's just fine for you and you haven't noticed any problems?
-
- Odd maybe, but it works for me. Up/down go by messages, left/right
- go by screens. I always use j & k anyway. What happens for you?
-
- >My favorite way to deal with mail is to go into vi, create a mail command
- >with a here document filled with blank lines and ending in `x', and 1G!Gksh
- >the whole thing. It subjects me to the fewest bogons of anything I've got.
- >(Oh, you don't like vi? Fine with me.
-
- Actually I like vi but I don't see the point of that exercise. How about
- cat /usr/mail/you? Or more useful: less /usr/mail/you (pg if you don't
- have less).
-
- Les Mikesell
- les@chinet.chi.il.us
-