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Re: ELM



Hi,

> 
> Forgive my seeming like a completely clueless newbie half the time. I'm a 
> victim of circumstance.
> 
> I have the mail transport system up and running (hurrah!) after a couple 
> of hours of mucking with the configs and setups.
> 
> So, I needed a mail-reader. What did I choose? Elm. Why not? There's a 
> 68000 binary available for it, after all. So, Elm it was, and I popped it 
> merrily in.
> 
> It works like a charm, UNTIL:
> 
> If there is any mail in the mailbox, Elm dumps the session with the 
> following message:
> 
> Reading in /usr/spool/mail/root, message: 1 
> newmbox - length of mbox. != spool mailbox length!!
> 
> Write to temp file failed, exiting leaving mailbox intact!
> 
just try to set the UNIXMODE-Eviroment to /cub.

That should help.

cu, michi
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* Michael Plonus                                   michi@pluto.ping.de    *
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