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Grex Info Item 124: Help on mail
Entered by drogers on Mon Mar 21 00:11:50 UTC 1994:

i would like to know how to append a file to a mail message. also, if I receive
a message with a file attached, how do I access the file. thanks.

5 responses total.

#1 of 5 by popcorn on Mon Mar 21 21:38:13 1994:

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#2 of 5 by pegasus on Sat Jun 25 18:01:45 1994:

Folks,

I've been using the C dev/tty command to scroll the mail in elm. but
recently, there's been a problem. The program redraws the last few lines
on the screen when it puts up the command: prompt, wiping out the text
that was there that I wanted to capture.

I odn't know if this is related, but I've noticed that I have to hit a
space now get the the grex, breakfast... and login prompt, where before, it
popped up on its own.

I'm using Zterm on a Mac with vt100.

        Pattie

#3 of 5 by davel on Sun Jun 26 00:56:49 1994:

This was a manifest hack, Pattie - copying the message to the screen.  Elm
then does go on to ask you what next by redrawing its little minimenu.
To avoid this, you're going to have to do something different, I think.
With most comm programs you can capture text as it comes in, rather than
using some kind of cut-&-paste that assumes that the stuff is still displayed;
if Zterm lets you do this, you'd then have to remove elm's menu from the end,
but you'd have your message intact.  The other approach would be to save the
mail to a file, and then transfer the file (and then, normally, delete the
file).

I don't know why the login banner's behavior should have changed, but that's
not related.  The behavior of elm which you describe is the appropriate
behavior for what you're doing.

#4 of 5 by popcorn on Sun Jun 26 01:35:31 1994:

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#5 of 5 by pegasus on Mon Jun 27 02:26:10 1994:

Nothing's changed on my end, and elm used to act just fine, but now it 
doesn't.

        Pattie

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