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Article #246Re: Mailbox program (fwd)
From: Bob Plested
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:10
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:10
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Chris Carlson writes... > > In <utre5vo@zola.esd.sgi.com> schuman@kaweah.esd.sgi.com (Aaron Schuman) writes: > > >Bob P> whenever I exit mail, causing the mailbox to zip back to its > >Bob P> closed picture, I get: "mailbox: Error 0" in my console window. > > >Yeah, it bothered me too. Now I launch mailbox with standard error > >redirected to /dev/null. I'm a happy man again. > > > That's strange. I've been using mailbox on all the releases and never get > a mailbox error. Is there something you're doing differently? > > I run mailbox from .login with the following command: > > /usr/sbin/mailbox -b -L34 -M120 -S $USER -m "Mail -n" > I also get the "mailbox: Error 0" message, I only started getting it after I upgraded to Irix 4.0.5. It's not a function of the specific mail program either; I get that same message whether I use mail, Mail or elm. Note that the error message only appears in the window that launched Mailbox. If that window is deleted I'll never see it. bob ------------ Bob Plested bob@caw2.4950tw.wpafb.af.mil 4950th Test Wing/FFXD 134.136.241.11 Wright-Patterson AFB, OH (513) 257-6809 DSN 787-6809 When the going gets wierd, the wierd turn pro.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!think.com!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!malgudi.oar.net!news.ans.net!cmcl2!adm!news From: bob@caw2.4950tw.wpafb.af.mil (Bob Plested) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc Subject: Re: Mailbox program (fwd) Message-ID: <35162@adm.brl.mil> Date: 21 Jan 93 18:10:35 GMT Sender: news@adm.brl.mil Lines: 34