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Article #3644Re: ELM 2.1-->2.4 Upgrade Questions
From: Syd Weinstein
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 21:18
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 21:18
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walter@Ingres.COM (Walter L. Nirenberg) writes: >1) We are currently on ELM 2.1.1. How do we go about getting the latest >version (I believe it is 2.4.17)? From many ftp sites or via uucp from uunet, dsinc or other archive sites. See the monthly posting for a list, or send the message send elm elm-ftp to archive-server@dsi.com for a list of ftp sites. (It will not mail out Elm)... for a list of uucp instructions for dsinc send the message send anon how-to dir to the same address. >2) Does the new release contain documentation? If not, where do we get >it? All releases contain docs, even 2.1, they are in the doc directory. >3) We have a nasty old bug with our ELM. Occasionally and without warning >ELM will wipe out the entire contents of the mailbox file for >whomever is using ELM at that time. I believe the problem is related >to /tmp directory capacity but I am not sure. Is this extremely serious >bug fixed in current versions? 2.1 could have done this for many reasons. 2.3 fixed most of these, and 2.4 should have gotten the rest, but bugs will be bugs..... :-) -- ======================================================================== Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator - Current 2.4PL20 Datacomp Systems, Inc. Projected 3.0 Release: ??? ?,1994 syd@DSI.COM or dsinc!syd Voice: (215) 947-9900, FAX: (215) 938-0235
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!usc!hela.iti.org!cs.widener.edu!dsinc!dsinc!not-for-mail From: syd@dsi.com (Syd Weinstein) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: ELM 2.1-->2.4 Upgrade Questions Date: 7 Jan 1993 16:18:06 -0500 Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA Lines: 32 Message-ID: <1ii6meINN134@dsinc.dsi.com> References: <1993Jan6.191447.2620@pony.Ingres.COM> Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM NNTP-Posting-Host: dsinc.dsi.com Keywords: UPGRADE 2.1 2.4