Elm/mailx/smail on SysV/AT

[Tim Evans]

In article <3338 at puff.cs.wisc.edu>, horn at rt3.cs.wisc.edu (Mark Horn) writes:
> In article <997 at kl-cs.UUCP> jonathan at cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) writes:
> >From article <1219 at fallst.UUCP>, by tkevans at fallst.UUCP (Tim Evans):
> >> that Elm (2.3d, patchlevel 6) crashes with segmentation violations
> >
> >I have put up elm on a 286 with uPort 2.4 and it always crahes when
> >deleting a message at the main menu.  It works fine if you
> >are reading mail and hit D.  This has been consistant throught
> >ELM 2.2 PL 6-11 and I haven't tried it at any other version.
> 
> This must be something particular to your systems.  I have smail2.5, and
> ELM2.3dev PL3 running on SysV (AT&T 3b1, software release 3.51) and I have
> Yet to experience that phenomenon.  I've had elm since ELM2.2 PL11.
> 
> I don't think it's fair to attribute this problem to ELM.
> 
Having posted the original request, I need to point out here that 
Jonathan is complaining about a different thing than I did and that
Mark missed the crucial point that it is Microport System V/AT about
which we're talking--not AT&T UNIX on the 3b1.

On Jonathan's point, there are some explicit instructions contained 
in the elm source distribution telling you about fixes (patches are
even included) to make elm run under uPort '286.  I was in on the
testing and have made a pest of myself to the development group insisting
that elm run on my '286.  Check the 'README' file.  Note especially that
you should *N*O*T* use the '-O' (optimizer switch) in compiling the
package.  Also, large model is required for the elm exeutable itself.

To repeat, the original problem I reported was with 'smail' not with
elm.  Elm works great on uPort System V/AT--every version since I 
started with 1.7; I'm not using the development version 2.3d.

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