[3152] in Release_Engineering
NetProb ticket #1256, decmips 7.6G: xmh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cdemello@MIT.EDU)
Wed Feb 2 12:33:09 1994
From: cdemello@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 94 12:33:04 -0500
To: rel-eng@MIT.EDU
Cc:
>From lbreid@MIT.EDU Fri Jan 21 11:46:34 1994
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>Subject: decmips 7.6G: xmh
>Date: Fri, 21 Jan 94 11:46:26 EST
>From: Lynn B. Reid <lbreid@MIT.EDU>
>
>System name: skye
>Type and version: KN01 7.6G (1 update(s) to same version)
>Display type: PMAX-MFB
>
>What were you trying to do?
>Use xmh
>
>What's wrong:
>The program is not up to the normal standards of X programs.
>Basically, it is a very old program that has very few features
>and is INCREDIBLY slow. Why, here at MIT, home of X, do we
>have such a crappy mailer?
>Often, xmh crashes for no obvious reason, when I try to open a
>new window (e.g. hit compose). Sometimes the error occurs int
>the middle of writing a draft. The error on the console
>window sometimes looks like:
>11:36 xmh: No such file or directory
>11:36 xmh: Error in FOpenAndCheck(/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/l/b/lbreid/Mail/dra>fts/.xmhcache, r)
>11:36 errno = 2; No such file or directory
>11:36 exiting.
>
>
>What should have happened:
>
>xmh should be faster, more reliable, prettier, and have more features.
>For example, why isn't there a menu choice of "include file" or
>"extract mail message to file"?
>A more pleasing alternative would be standard line-editor unix mail.
>This repl,comp,scan,show junk requires the average user to learn
>much too much.
>Alternatively, the Digital program dxmail is not bad. There are
>many other alternatives, as well. Why doesn't athena support a
>better one?
>
>Please describe any relevant documentation references:
>
