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FROM: pip@namaste.stricca.org
Date: Thu,  6 Jul 2000 01:19:55 -0400
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Acme Mail program
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Hi

I'm a bit stuck on why the mail reader in acme does 
not work on my system. In the top titlebar, I type
in 'Mail', doubleclick to highlight it (cyan ?), then
I middle mouseclick. Drum roll... nothing happens. 
I must be missing something obvious.

In the event that I am indeed doing the right thing...:
/acme/mail/386/Mail gives me a 

  Mail: can't open window ctl file: file does not exist

/acme/mail/src/win.c:15-18 seems responsible:

	w->ctl = open("/mnt/wsys/new/ctl", ORDWR|OCEXEC);
	if(w->ctl<0 || read(w->ctl, buf, 12)!=12)
		error("can't open window ctl file: %r");

but I do not have a /mnt/wsys/new/ in the namespace of
my rc when I do the /acme/mail/386/Mail.
-
pip