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Article #8904

Re: Help reorder VM folders

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From: Howard Melman
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 11:25
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In article <POESIO.92Dec8114601@cherry.cs.rochester.edu> poesio@cs.rochester.edu (Massimo Poesio) writes:

> I was about to post a problem report (and possible solution) on this
> subject myself, but I'll simply join the thread. I ran this morning
> into the same problem that Howard Melman reports.  I then stepped
> through the call to VM-STUFF-MESSAGE-ORDER, and I noticed that the
> problem was originated by a call to the function SIGNUM, which is
> defined - in cl.el, I believe - as a function and then redefined in
> timer.el (which comes with VM5.32) as a macro. I commented out the
> macro from timer.el, recompiled it, and now everything seems to work
> fine. 
> 
> I understand this is a known problem. I'd like to know if others have
> better solutions and/or if there are any side effects to what I just did.

Hmmm.  I don't seem to have timer.el or anything other than cl.el that
defines signum.

Howard

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Subject: Re: Help reorder VM folders
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