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Missing Data in curses mode with 7.1.2

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From: QQ11
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 1990 09:47
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Version 7.1.2 under HP-UX 7.0

A problem has come to light when in curses mode and using a vt100 terminal
or emulation (haven't been able to try any other 'real' terminals).
The following hdr_format string:

    set hdr_format="%18n %-2N%3M%2y %38s %-5l"

is fine with line mode and the number of columns is displayed correctly and
uses the full 80 columns. However the following behaviour is evident with
curses:

1   "~/mbox": 211 messages, 0 new, 0 unread, 0 deleted
[ lines removed ]
  6     Bill Jones         16Aug90 Re: Timeout on shell command.            1??
  7     John Smith         16Aug90 Re: bell                                  ??
[ rest removed ]

There should be numbers displayed at  the question marks but cols 79 and
80 are actually blank (the 1 shown above is from 100).

Tests with a vt100 in 132 column mode were fine with no missing data. This
seems to be a bug. It does not appear to be machine/un*x specific.

Point 2:
How can I introduce a facility that for a particular mail item, a
'Reply-To:' header will be used pointing towards a specific user@site?
Yes I know I can use the 'edit headers' facility but not everyone
is/will be happy with this. I would like to set up a cmd 'replyto'
with an optional argument such that if no argument is given, the
header points to me otherwise points to the given argument.

Thanks

Alan Thew
University of Liverpool Computer Laboratory
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Subject: Missing Data in curses mode with 7.1.2
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Date: 7 Sep 90 09:47:55 GMT
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