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In article <1993Jan6.164245.20045@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> horn@freefall.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Horn) writes:
>Hi I just got elm PL20 up and running.  But with that patch I occasionally get
>the following error:
>

Well I just built PL20 and I continually get the following when trying
to print messages from elm:

readmsg: illegal option -- I

followed by the print job spooled message.

I see -I is an undocumented  feature...

From readmsg.c

    The undocumented "-I" option is a kludge to deal with an Elm race
    condition.  The problem is that Elm does piping/printing/etc. by
    running "readmsg|command" and placing the mail message selection
    into a folder state file.  However, if the "command" portion of
    the pipeline craps out, Elm might regain control before "readmsg"
    completes.  The first thing Elm does is unlink the folder state
    file.  Thus "readmsg" can't figure out what to do -- there is no
    state file or command line args to select a message.  In this
    case, "readmsg" normally gives a usage diagnostic message.  The
    "-I" option says to ignore this condition and silently terminate.


Any suggestions...


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