Re: Elm 2.4 confusing one user with another

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From: Jean-Pierre Radley
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1992 20:59

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In article <1992Oct21.040052.3316@jpradley.jpr.com> jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes:
>
>vernon:x:242:50:Robert Young,Vernon Rentals:/pub/vernon:/bin/sh
>dons:x:212:50:Donald Schettini:/pub/dons:/bin/sh
>
>When vernon tries to save mail, or to change folders, he gets told
>	sh: cannot open /pub/dons/Mail
>
>When don tries to save mail, or to change folders, he gets told
>	sh: cannot open /pub/vernon/Mail
>
>I haven't heard this from don yet, but vernon has told me that mail he sent
>to another site was, on the remote site, ascribed to Donald Schettini.
>

Mea culpa.

In order to help out dons, I copied vernon's elmrc file to dons' directory.

Then I edited vernon's elmrc, instead of dons' new copy...

-- 
Jean-Pierre Radley   Unix in NYC   jpr@jpr.com   jpradley!jpr   CIS: 72160.1341

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