Elm on SunOS 4.0

Mark Lawrence drd!mark at uunet.uu.net
Sat Dec 31 08:43:49 AEST 1988


david at wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) wrote:
} We have installed the 'elm' mail package on our Sun 3/260 running SunOS
} 4.0....when we try to run it on a vt52 terminal, we get this message:
} 
} Emergency Exit taken!  All temp files intact!
} Seqment Violation signal!

Try defining so and se in your termcap (thus so=:se=:).  If you want to
see what elm is trying to standout you can so={:se=}:.  Elm seems to want
to puke if these are not defined for a terminal.

Mark



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