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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 19:17:25 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: george <vagner@ti.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ELM
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On Wed, Oct 29, 1997 at 02:25:37PM -0600, george wrote:
> when i log in through my modem to my freebsd box i try and read my mail
> using elm but i get "core dumped" after running it.
>
> any ideas?

That's a bug in elm.

You could check the setting of your TERM environment variable--that
could cause it.  Or, like myself, you could give up elm as a bad job
and try mutt instead.  I used elm for years, but I finally got fed up
with all the bugs.

Greg