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- From: mdm@dyson.apple.com (Michael McDaniel)
- Subject: xterm display troubles on AIX 3.2
- Summary: Broken!
- Sender: news@gallant.apple.com
- Message-ID: <12@dyson.apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 02:22:17 GMT
- Lines: 53
- Reply-To: mdm@apple.com
- Organization: Apple Computer Inc.
- Keywords: RS-6000 xterm display help
-
- I compiled Elm 2.4.11 up according to the readme and it went like a
- dream! The result, however is not a dream. In an xterm, it is as if
- elm doesn't know what to do. Sample output follows:
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- argus/usr/local/src/bin/elm2.4.11 % elm
- Mailbox is 'argus.apple.com:/usr/spool/mail/mdm' with 0 messages [ELM 2.4 PL1
- 1]
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- [blank lines deleted]
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- You can use any of the following commands by pressing the first character;d)e
- lete or u)ndelete mail, m)ail a message, r)eply or f)orward mail, q)uitTo
- read a message, press <return>. j = move down, k = move up, ? = helpCommand:
-
- ------------
- As you can see, the menu is not formatted up very nicely. On a vt100, it looks like this:
- ------------
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- Mailbox is 'argus.apple.com:/usr/spool/mail/mdm' with 0 messages [ELM 2.4 PL11]
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- [Again, lines deleted]
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- You can use any of the following commands by pressing the first character;
- d)elete or u)ndelete mail, m)ail a message, r)eply or f)orward mail, q)uit
- To read a message, press <return>. j = move down, k = move up, ? = help
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- Command:
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-
- So, any ideas out there? It doesn't do it under A/UX or on non-xterms under
- AIX... Help?
-
- Thanks,
- Michael
- mdm@apple.com
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