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- From: irilyth@fenris.claremont.edu (Josh Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Mutant weirdness
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.004358.15398@muddcs.claremont.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 00:43:58 GMT
- Sender: news@muddcs.claremont.edu (The News System)
- Organization: HMC Academic Computing Services
- Lines: 24
- Originator: irilyth@fenris
-
- I've encounted versions of elm numbered under what is apparently an entirely
- different scheme than the friendly 2.3, 2.4, etc I'd seen elsewhere. When I
- launch elm on one, at the top of the screen it prints:
-
- Mailbox is '/usr/mail/josh' with 0 messages [Elm revision: 70.30]
-
- Both were on Snakes (H-PUX machines of some flavor), and I wondered if this
- was a Snake thing, a ludicrously old version of elm, or what.
-
- ...and then I checked the man pages on one of the snakes, and found the
- following:
-
- AUTHOR
- elm was developed by Hewlett-Packard Company.
-
- Is this true, or serious bogosity? I didn't notice anything about HP in the
- FAQ file, but I might have missed it. Apologies if this is an old and stupid
- question, but I'd been wondering for a while, and finally got around to
- posting about it. Thanks in advance for any info...
- --
- original text by Josh Smith :: Comments, questions, etc. welcomed
- irilyth@fenris.claremont.edu :: #include <std.disclaimer>
- "If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll
- look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy."
-