[3917] in Athena Bugs
vax 6.4R: sendbug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Flanagan office: E40-331)
Mon Jan 8 10:22:42 1990
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 90 10:22:15 EST
From: David Flanagan office: E40-331 <djf@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
System name: leo
Type and version: CVAXSTAR 6.4R (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: SM
What were you trying to do?
send a bug report with sendbug
What's wrong:
1) When I'm done with my message, instead of getting
my prompt back, I'm assaulted with the question "What
now?". The hell if I know.
2) So I figure out (by looking at the source) that if I delete
~/.mh_profile, it will start up my $EDITOR rather than
always starting up emacs. This seems pretty reasonable,
so I delete it and try sendbug again. Then when I exit
my editor, mh takes me on another wild and crazy dialog:
You already have the standard MH directory "/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/d/djf/Mail".
Do you want to use it for MH? n
Do you want a path below your login directory? n
What is the whole path? /
[Using existing directory]
install-mh: unable to write /context: Permission denied
whatnow: [install-mh aborted]
3) I'm not sure that the prompts in the prototype bug report
presented to the user will elicit the most descriptive
responses. At least there should be a question asking
how to repeat the bug.
What should have happened:
I shouldn't be asked any questions before or after composing
my bug report. sendbug determines that I am not a mh user, but
tries to send my bug report with whatnow anyway. This screws me
over. It should use sendmail directly.
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