Need help with mh *and* mail on RISC/Ultrix 4.1

Dan Barrett barrett at jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU
Tue May 14 11:37:59 AEST 1991


In article <smw.674163539 at alcor> smw at alcor.concordia.ca ( Steven Winikoff ) writes:
>Whenever I try to perform a shell escape under vi as 
>called from the "comp" command, it fails with the message
>    "csh: Permission denied"

	I have seen this behavior in several of our editors (JOVE, vi) when
"comp" was not involved, so I do not believe that it is an MH problem.

	The problem disappeared completely when I made /bin/sh my editor's
default shell.  I believe that there is a bug in csh that causes this
problem.

                                                        Dan

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