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- From: walter@cithe501.cithep.caltech.edu (Chris Walter)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Piping to command doesn't work (2.4 PL6) on AIX3.2
- Date: 5 Nov 1992 18:08:17 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- Originator: walter@cithe303.cithep.caltech.edu
-
- Hi Folks,
-
- I recently returned to the US from Italy where I was running ELM 2.4
- PL3 on an IBM RS6000 AIX3.1. Now I am using a cluster of IBM RS6000s
- with NFS mounted disks running AIX3.2. I got and installed ELM 2.4 PL6
- with our system manager here and am noticing an error I didn't see
- before.
-
- If I try to pipe a message to a command using "|" I get the error(for
- example):
-
- ***************************
- Command: |
- Pipe to: more
-
- Usage: readmsg [-anhp] [-f Folder] {MessageNum ... | pattern | *}
- M-^?
-
-
- Press any key to return to ELM:
- ******************************
-
- after pressing the return I get:
-
- Return code was 256.
-
- The same thing happens If I run readmsg from within emacs while
- composing or replying to a message. On the other hand shell escaping
- readmsg works just find and returns the current message.
-
- Anyone know what's going on?
-
- -Chris
-
- Chris Walter
- walter@cithe501.cithep.caltech.edu
- walter@cithex.BITNET
- CITHEX::WALTER
- --
- Chris Walter
- walter@cithe501.cithep.caltech.edu (will be forwarded to Italy)
- walter@riscgs1.lngs.infn.it (where I am now)
- walter@cithex.BITNET
-