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- From: syd@dsi.com (Syd Weinstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: ELM 2.1-->2.4 Upgrade Questions
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 16:18:06 -0500
- Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA
- Lines: 32
- Message-ID: <1ii6meINN134@dsinc.dsi.com>
- References: <1993Jan6.191447.2620@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
- NNTP-Posting-Host: dsinc.dsi.com
- Keywords: UPGRADE 2.1 2.4
-
- walter@Ingres.COM (Walter L. Nirenberg) writes:
- >1) We are currently on ELM 2.1.1. How do we go about getting the latest
- >version (I believe it is 2.4.17)?
-
- From many ftp sites or via uucp from uunet, dsinc or other archive sites.
- See the monthly posting for a list, or send the message
-
- send elm elm-ftp
-
- to archive-server@dsi.com for a list of ftp sites. (It will not mail out
- Elm)... for a list of uucp instructions for dsinc send the message
-
- send anon how-to dir
-
- to the same address.
-
- >2) Does the new release contain documentation? If not, where do we get
- >it?
- All releases contain docs, even 2.1, they are in the doc directory.
-
- >3) We have a nasty old bug with our ELM. Occasionally and without warning
- >ELM will wipe out the entire contents of the mailbox file for
- >whomever is using ELM at that time. I believe the problem is related
- >to /tmp directory capacity but I am not sure. Is this extremely serious
- >bug fixed in current versions?
- 2.1 could have done this for many reasons. 2.3 fixed most of these, and
- 2.4 should have gotten the rest, but bugs will be bugs..... :-)
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- Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator - Current 2.4PL20
- Datacomp Systems, Inc. Projected 3.0 Release: ??? ?,1994
- syd@DSI.COM or dsinc!syd Voice: (215) 947-9900, FAX: (215) 938-0235
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